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Hi folks,
My local friendly cafe owner has had quite a few problems with her Internet (BT Business) and consequently her card reader (iZettle), which is pretty frustrating as most people are cash-free these days (including me!). It seems that iZettle has loads of problems working after one of these Internet outages. I haven't had a chance to go and have a look at her setup yet, but in the meantime, question time:
- Have any of you good people come up against a similar problem (for a friend or family), and how did you solve it?
- I'm thinking some sort of 4G backup so that if the main Internet goes down, the card reader can fall back to 4G. EE charge £13 per month for 5GB which would be plenty just for payments.
- But how to implement that backup? Little pocket 4G router that she manually switches on when the Internet goes down? Don't want some complicated router with WAN failover because then all the cafe punters would annihilate her 4G allowance in a matter of minutes. In other words, if the main Internet goes down, then her customers have no Internet, but the card reader still does.
- SumUp has a 3G card reader that costs £69 (one-off) and has no monthly fees, so maybe I'll just tell her to have that as her backup. It has built-in SIM and you don't pay for the data, so I guess they take it out of the 1.75% fee they charge (which seems pretty standard across the various brands I've had a look at).
- In general, have you got experience with any/all of the various card readers (iZettle, Square, SumUp, others?) and have any recommendations?
Thanks folks, I appreciate your time!
My local friendly cafe owner has had quite a few problems with her Internet (BT Business) and consequently her card reader (iZettle), which is pretty frustrating as most people are cash-free these days (including me!). It seems that iZettle has loads of problems working after one of these Internet outages. I haven't had a chance to go and have a look at her setup yet, but in the meantime, question time:
- Have any of you good people come up against a similar problem (for a friend or family), and how did you solve it?
- I'm thinking some sort of 4G backup so that if the main Internet goes down, the card reader can fall back to 4G. EE charge £13 per month for 5GB which would be plenty just for payments.
- But how to implement that backup? Little pocket 4G router that she manually switches on when the Internet goes down? Don't want some complicated router with WAN failover because then all the cafe punters would annihilate her 4G allowance in a matter of minutes. In other words, if the main Internet goes down, then her customers have no Internet, but the card reader still does.
- SumUp has a 3G card reader that costs £69 (one-off) and has no monthly fees, so maybe I'll just tell her to have that as her backup. It has built-in SIM and you don't pay for the data, so I guess they take it out of the 1.75% fee they charge (which seems pretty standard across the various brands I've had a look at).
- In general, have you got experience with any/all of the various card readers (iZettle, Square, SumUp, others?) and have any recommendations?
Thanks folks, I appreciate your time!