Card Readers for taking out on the road.

I can recommend another way to take payment using a mobile card reader. It makes you look more professional taking electronic payments rather than cash or cheques.

It's a good idea to let customers decide which payment method they prefer. 

I use the Sum Up card reader to take payments by card on the road.  Really low rates less than 1.7% with no fixed fee or monthly fee.  Much better and cheaper than paypal. You can also take payments over the phone too. 

The card reader for £29 using this link.  You can get a discount of £30 halving the price with this link ( also helps me with referral reward   )

http://fbuy.me/f7Ve3'>http://fbuy.me/f7Ve3

You can swipe cards or use chip and pin option or contactless payments. It's fab. 

Once you take payment you then can put the customers email or phone number in the app and it will either text or email the receipt straight away for them. Works a treat. 

Just use your own card to test it out when you get it first to see how it works. Just take £1 on your own car

http://fbuy.me/f7Ve3

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Looks like it's been popular. It's a good way to make things easier and more pro.

Take amex, visa debit, visa credit and MasterCard from your van

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The paypal one is well received. Trusted brand and goes direct into paypal account

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Yes. But sum up is only 1.68% paypal is more expensive.

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When i first read this post I thought maybe you worked for them lol.

That's horses for courses, none of these are a method I would use for large scale transactions anyway.

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Yes. To be fair I tried paypal but they ramdomly to audit me putting a freeze on my account while others carried out. Somethi g they do which is all in their terms apparently.

They allowed people to carry on paying but prevented me from transferring funds to my account holding all my payments.

They wanted many forms of I'd from me including bank Stats, passport and stuff. In had no choice but to comply so I could get my money. They took six weeks to complete their audit and put my account back to normal.

I complained but they just said it was their policy to complete random additional checks. I therefore could not retrieve any of my money from the paypal account for almost 7 weeks.

Enough was enough and that's when i found Sum up. I've never looked back.

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is it easy to connect up,    do you use your phones internet useage,   you will need to use your mb ,  i never use my phones direct internet usually,   i just use the wi fi when using internet.

Seems a handy toy to have, especially when out collecting.    Them having no cash on them,   see there shocked face when you pull this out,    That will put them in a state of shock,    ohh  i cant find my card.    You are dumped,  haha

Yes mate. Makes u look more pro when you offer it. Most will be impressed.

However you do need access to your mobile phone as it works with the app. The app allows you to enter in the amount and to send a receipt to customers phone by text or email.

It will require access to data to do this. Your phone also communicates with the reader via Bluetooth so only a little data is used.


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Six months back I switched from PayPal to Izettle. This is a great little reader and contactleds is great for them small jobs. Best thing? Not had to charge it yet! Woo Hoo! [emoji16]
(Will now go flat tomorrow) [emoji29]

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Yes same here. Never needed to recharge yet. But better get done just in case

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Just bought the izzle one. Gonna sell my PayPal one on eBay.

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I use iZettle and think it is great for taking card payments. If you create an account through my link below you will get free transactions when you take your first payment within 30 days

Click here to sign up: https://www.izettle.com/a/BGJHFN

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It looks good. But transaction fees are a little higher than Sum up with another cost to go premium.

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Not sure on other card readers but with izetta you can store the payments up and release them to bank on a set date ie 1st of month.

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Nice. The sum up sends payments straight to your bank account too without any hassle automatically

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Chris33 said:

Not sure on other card readers but with izetta you can store the payments up and release them to bank on a set date ie 1st of month.

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That's correct Chris

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Plus Sumup allows you to take payment over the phone too.

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Think the card reader on izettle is on offer at the moment you can also send invoices to be paid

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I actually wish I went with paypal one, yes slightly higher costs but I wouldn't be using it for add ons. Pay cash on the day or bank when I am there.

It's more for brand awareness for me. Easier to build trust with a known brand is my thinkin but I guess a few will have had bad experiences with paypal too.

Overall it's a well known company though

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I wouldn't worry about the brand mate. No one take any notice when it's used. If you pay by card in a shop you don't really look at brands. You never see retailers using PayPal as they do have a bad rep.

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I have had loads of paypal use personally and without issue it's such a big brand now that it's inevitable there has been some mishaps.

I also have had some customers not sure of my machine and I honestly believe the paypal name/ familiarity would have helped In more instances than one.

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