Nothing makes your life easier and combines thoughtful customer service like a Portable Card Terminal. Portable credit card terminals are quickly replacing traditional fixed-base credit card terminals up and down your high street. From restaurants and cafes to disabled-friendly counters and retailers, many modern and forward thinking organisations are considering Portable Card Terminal technology. Portable Card Terminals don’t just make it easier for you to accept a wide range of credit card and debit card payments, they also make your customers feel valued and appreciated, by taking the service directly to them.
I run a restaurant. Could a Portable Card Terminal work for my business?
It seems as if the Portable Card Terminal was practically made with restaurants, cafes, pubs and other eateries in mind. A portable credit card terminal is the ideal payment solution in any establishment that offers payment at table. Allowing your customers to pay for their drinks or meal at their own table, enhances the level of care and service that you’re able to provide to them and because you can process your customers’ debit card and credit cards at their table there is no need for the card to be out of their sight, further inspiring their confidence in you and your business.
A truly portable solution, the Retail Merchant Services VX 670 is the world’s smallest hand-held portable credit card machine, easily fitting into your hand and remains lightweight, easing use for everyone.
I own a small shop. Do I really need a Portable Card Terminal?
Portable credit card terminals are fast becoming the most suitable credit card machine for all retail premises and they are particularly useful to help meet your requirements under the Equality Act 2010 with particular reference to the provision of goods and services to disabled and mobility-impaired people. With a fixed-based credit card terminal on a tall counter could you guarantee that you could offer the same level of access to payment for disabled people? You can with a Portable Card Terminal, you can directly hand the terminal to your customer to enter and remove their card as well as entering their PIN, making the transaction smooth and hassle-free for everyone.
You may be fortunate enough to benefit from low, access-friendly counters and may not necessarily need a Portable Card Terminal – but why not check out our latest fixed-based credit card machines and save your business even more money?
I’m a plumber and take payments at my customer’s home. Could a Portable Card Terminal work for me?
The Portable Card Terminal is not designed to offer a completely mobile service as it works by sending and receiving data in range of a transmitter (supplied) that is plugged directly into your telephone line.
We do offer a fully mobile and completely flexible card machine that works using GPRS SIM card technology just like your mobile phone. We have taken the compact and lightweight body of the portable card terminal and have worked with VeriFone to develop the Retail Merchant Services VeriFone VX 670 M, the world’s smallest one piece and completely mobile credit card terminal.
Check out our mobile card terminal pages to find out more or contact us and speak to one of our experienced and dedicated payments experts to discuss what is right for you.
Retail Merchant Services: the trusted independent credit card processing provider
In 2007 Retail Merchant Services Limited was established to open UK Credit Card Processing to every business, no matter how big or how small, and to do all of this by:
- Offering market-leading, easy to understand, low cost credit card processing
- Providing any credit card terminals and machines needed, included in the price
- Offering a flexible range of easy-in and easy-out additional cash saving benefits
- Reducing the use of jargon and helping you make sense of credit card payments
- Offering a real alternative to the banking industry, working fairly for you
Retail Merchant Services offers a complete card processing solution to each of their 22,000 happy customers and because all of the technical details are taken care of by their experienced team there is less for you to worry about and more time for you to run your business.
How are Retail Merchant Services different?
British based, with only UK call centres, and staffed only by experienced card payment specialists Retail Merchant Services has an enviable reputation for providing world-class customer service at all times. In fact it is their excellent customer service combined with a traditional network of local representatives that helped Retail Merchant Services to scoop the prestigious ‘Outstanding Performance’ award in 2010 from Elavon at the European Summit.
Everything that Retail Merchant Services do and provide has been meticulously drafted and tested from a customer point of view; from easy to understand agreements and invoices to high quality software used on their credit card machines – credit card processing couldn’t be easier with Retail Merchant Services.
