Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Mike Halliday on October 21, 2011, 10:44:10 pm
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the service offered at the top about credit & debit card payments?
if you can do it online i could use my Ipad.
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But would you need to faff about logging onto the customers wifi? That's if they have it?
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You can do it over the phone it states at £3.00 per transaction plus card percentage :-\
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My Ipad is wifi so can connect anywhere through its own simcard ( vodaphone)
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I don't think customers would like you using a phone to input their card details but if they watched you do it on a computer screen or tablet it would look more professional
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Is it an iPad 2?
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Not tried it, but looked into it today.
For me I think it's worth consideration, even with their charges it still is better value than terminal rental.
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Is it an iPad 2?
yes
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I have an iPad 1 so guess it has a sim card option. Never looked!
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Being as it's not a terminal and that is what people as used to i don't think it would be very popular
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I don't think customers would like you using a phone to input their card details but if they watched you do it on a computer screen or tablet it would look more professional
Ive been thinking the same thing.
Ive just signed up all you do is go onto payatrader site, log into your account then click on virtual terminal, input customers card details. Or if you dont think customers would be happy to put details into phone/ipad then you could phone them when you "get back to the office where the terminal is" and take payment the same way or using your laptop.
Its the same thing only customers are probably more acustomed to paying for some thing over the phone as opposed to us imputing there details into our phones etc infront of them.
Aternatively the customer an log onto payatrader website input your number and pay you, also from what I can gather they can phone payatrader, thats where the £3.00 charge is.
I had a chat with the payatrader guy at the carpet cleaners carnival and they have a conventional type terminal in the pipeline also.
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I have an iPad 1 so guess it has a sim card option. Never looked!
only if it's a 3G + WiFi model. some are WiFi only. You can however tether them to your iPhone if you have one for mobile Internet.
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Do you know how to tether as I have an IPhone 4 and IPad 1.
Cheers
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Think you chuck a rope over a rail ;D
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2786355?start=0&tstart=0 (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2786355?start=0&tstart=0)
About half way down page.
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I have seen similar systems on the market, does anyone know if you need to open a merchant bank account or if there is an app for the iPhone? seeing as i would like to be able to take a payment on site without expecting the customer to log on etc...
So a setup charge of £83 based on a single cardholder
Up to £250 of card sales per week will cost 2.95% per transaction
Then i get confused... "minimum fee online" says its .30p or if its a telefphone transaction its £3.00.. are these fees ON TOP of the 2.95% ???
Here is an alternative i have found.. gonna be more of a hassle to set up and a monthly fee though
http://www.adelante.co.uk/mobilepos.html (http://www.adelante.co.uk/mobilepos.html)
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I don't think customers would like you using a phone to input their card details but if they watched you do it on a computer screen or tablet it would look more professional
Ive been thinking the same thing.
Ive just signed up all you do is go onto payatrader site, log into your account then click on virtual terminal, input customers card details. Or if you dont think customers would be happy to put details into phone/ipad then you could phone them when you "get back to the office where the terminal is" and take payment the same way or using your laptop.
Its the same thing only customers are probably more acustomed to paying for some thing over the phone as opposed to us imputing there details into our phones etc infront of them.
Aternatively the customer an log onto payatrader website input your number and pay you, also from what I can gather they can phone payatrader, thats where the £3.00 charge is.
I had a chat with the payatrader guy at the carpet cleaners carnival and they have a conventional type terminal in the pipeline also.
Russ see my last post, no need for merchant account pay your £54 (£25 cleanit up discount) and i was up and running in less than 24 hours.
No need for app just go on payatrader site on your phone, log in and click virtual terminal ive just done it on my phone. If you want to give me your card details we could process a payment just to make sure ;D ;D ;D though they may have an app I dont know.
No monthly fees, £0-£250 in payments/week 2.95% with a £0.30 minimum charge.
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How do you get the ciu discount?
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just type in cleanitup in the promo code box .
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Have been using the adelante system through my iphone for most of the year, cant fault it really,
never once had a customer question payments through my phone, just tell them it acts like a conventional terminal.
easy to set up, genrally costs me £15.00 a month
What i like is you can add as many phones to your account as you like at no extra cost, so if you ahve others working for you they can take payments as well.
For myself think i would rather use my phone in my pocket rather having to risk taking an ipad around with me.
Regards
Steve
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Sounds good Steve
Presumably you have to pay to set up a merchant account on top?
Does the £15 include all your transactions?
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I signed up with Payatrader its easy and quick and does the business - 89 pounds setup (one-off fee) no monthly charge in fact no other charges except percentage on each payment made thro Payatrader - I think its 3.5% or thereabouts - on a 195 invoice they kept 5.75 - its a convenience thing - if customers want to pay by cc I tell them its 2% extra on the bill they accept this no problem - if they have a smart phone or pc at home it goes thro ead quick - while Im re-loading the van I get a text from Payatrader confirming payment
Its simple, it works no terminal rental nothing complicated - ten days later I get the money bgc
dave
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You could have saved £25 using ciu discount
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Theres £50 setup fee and they will set you up a merchant account if you dont have one for £50
There after you pay the usual percentage per transaction to card companies and a small percentage per transaction to adelante, but the £15.00 fee a month includes any fees up to the amount then basically they add on any over and above that.
Ive not ever gone over the £15.00 though.
I just find it so convenient, works on any smart phone, plus you can take payments over the phone ( not all systems allow this ) and you have a internet interface for admin purposes and also taking payments.
So you have the best of all the options
Regards
steve
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When I signed up with payatrader there was no ciu discount
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Theres £50 setup fee and they will set you up a merchant account if you dont have one for £50
There after you pay the usual percentage per transaction to card companies and a small percentage per transaction to adelante, but the £15.00 fee a month includes any fees up to the amount then basically they add on any over and above that.
Ive not ever gone over the £15.00 though.
I just find it so convenient, works on any smart phone, plus you can take payments over the phone ( not all systems allow this ) and you have a internet interface for admin purposes and also taking payments.
So you have the best of all the options
Regards
steve
I'm going to check it out Steve, looks like the perfect solution for me.
Thanks for sharing
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I have decided to give this a go... seeing as there are no minimum contracts or merchant accounts to set up it looks pretty straight forward.
If you have an iphone or any smartphone with internet you go to www.payatrader.mobi USING THE PHONE.
Only time will tell if its a good thing but in comparison its cheap and you dont need a business account to use it.
I received a £25 discount by tapping in CLEANITUP as the discount code
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Just joined
takes 3 days to set up, cost me £74 as I'm LTD
now I need to add the Visa signs to all my marketing stuff
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Filled out the form on Sat and went live this morning. Tried on iphone and is fine.
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same here,
but it has a glitch using Ipads which will be fixed by Thursday..... unless you use the shopatrader.mobi site for portable devices
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I couldnt open the virtual terminal page so typed the link in and it worked, saved as a bookmark now.
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I'm live now... This needs a dedicated app written for the iPhone which would make it so much more user friendly
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Been using this a while now.
You get a £25 discount for reccomendation ( look at the small print)
It took me about 30 mins to register and go live when i did it.
Use the mobi app for your phone, it takes seconds to load and is the fastest way todo the transactions.