Small business card reader

Mr.Cookie · 9 Nov 2021 at 17:40

My wife is wanting to sort some form of card payment system out for her business.
She runs a behaviour and chiropractic service for dogs and horses, currently using either bacs, cash or cheque's.

We have been looking at izettle, sumup and Square anyone use these or is there something better?

Cheers

Martynt74 · 9 Nov 2021 at 17:41

Sumup seems to be the favoured one based on small bars/foodtrucks that i've seen.

I imagine they're all much of a muchness and the fees seem reasonable.

Steeps · 9 Nov 2021 at 17:49

Zettle got bought out by PayPal, I've used PayPal and square in the past. Personally I prefer the all in one pad with a screen which zettle offers over the contactless pad you get with square, but really it's best to go with whichever integrates best with your accounting software to streamline billing and payments. With these systems you can add product and services to your phone then itemise the invoices direct so it's more than just taking payments.

djjuk · 9 Nov 2021 at 19:04

IZettle. Links to my Starling business account and QuickBooks for instant accounting. App on your phone and small card reader. Works perfectly for me.

WillyNelson · 9 Nov 2021 at 19:20

My wife uses Sumup for Farmers Markets and craft fairs, as do a lot of the other stallholders seems to work pretty well.

haaammit · 10 Nov 2021 at 09:13

We use Zettle at the local sports club bar I run. Works well, just pair with a phone and away you go!

jsmoke · 10 Nov 2021 at 09:18

Zettle looks good and cheap.

Freakbro · 10 Nov 2021 at 09:42

We use Zettle for face to face transactions, fees are pretty reasonable, especially compared to Stripe that we use via the web site!

Mr.Cookie · 10 Nov 2021 at 11:24

Thanks guys

Antipasti · 30 May 2022 at 21:18

Another vote for Zettle

Vanquish-Storm · 30 May 2022 at 22:05

Square

Freakbro · 31 May 2022 at 08:08

Zettle here and happy with it. They now do an all in 1 terminal/card reader that works well.

wesimmo · 31 May 2022 at 11:10

Are they all much of a muchness on rates these days? When I was last in the industry none of these solutions were really at maturity so the big boys still dominated except in some niche cases.

Iamzod · 1 Jun 2022 at 00:02

wesimmo said:
Are they all much of a muchness on rates these days? When I was last in the industry none of these solutions were really at maturity so the big boys still dominated except in some niche cases.

If you are doing less than £1500 to maybe £2000 a month these sort of readers are, yeah.

Beyond that they get expensive & you'd be best with a merchant account.

K.C. Leblanc · 1 Jun 2022 at 16:11

I'd avoid the sort that tether to a phone. Whenever I go anywhere that has one they always play up.