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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: homenclean on September 15, 2006, 06:42:25 pm

Title: accepting credit & Debit cards
Post by: homenclean on September 15, 2006, 06:42:25 pm

Does anyone out there accept credit and debit cards, the bank have contacted me with a view to accepting them using a manual terminal. The costs seem reasonable, around £50.00 per month for the terminal and processing charges.

My plan is to pass the additional cost onto the customer i.e 25p to 30p per debit card and 2% on credit cards.

I would be interested in your experiances and opinions.

Thank You

John.

Title: Re: accepting credit & Debit cards
Post by: cleaning co on September 15, 2006, 07:01:20 pm

tryed it for a year only ever had one custy wanting to use the service even put it on my ads in tel books thinking someone hard up would hav there carpets cleaned if they were skint and put it on a credit card but not one !!! and it costs

Title: Re: accepting credit & Debit cards
Post by: Paul Brennan on September 15, 2006, 07:17:22 pm

I used to be part of a franchise which required me to offer credit card facilities. It cost money each month for the terminal and a yearly charge in merchant fees, and I took two credit card payments in three years.

I offered customers the opportunity to pay with a view to upselling but found that they were just as happy to pay by cheque.

Of 5 other guys I used to be in contact, none of them found that there was much call either.

Paul

Title: Re: accepting credit & Debit cards
Post by: www.crawleycarpetc on September 16, 2006, 02:35:26 pm

Hi,

I was recently thinking about this but then i have been thinking about using Paypal. Have any of you guys used it or checked out the cost comparisons? Apparently this form of payment is very popular in the states! We normally catch on sooner or later.

Regards R

Title: Re: accepting credit & Debit cards
Post by: stevegunn on September 18, 2006, 06:18:19 pm

Save your money asked a few times before I got machine then never asked again :-[

Title: Re: accepting credit & Debit cards
Post by: Glynn on September 18, 2006, 06:54:23 pm

Took about £2K in last month on mine, well worth having imo.

Title: Re: accepting credit & Debit cards
Post by: Phil Marlor on September 18, 2006, 07:20:18 pm

In 8 years dont think I have ever been asked if I take CC.

Phil