You take it for granted as a customer - until the day you need to set up a till counter yourself. Then the question arises: how do I organise a till point so it's efficient AND attractive? Part of the answer depends on your product range, but other things [...]
Need to take payments over the phone, but not sure which virtual terminal to choose? Quite a few payment providers in the UK offer virtual terminals, but only few are truly good value for a small business. Compared to card machine payments, manually typing card details is [...]
If you work in hospitality, chances are you'll want to accept gratuities from customers. But which do you accept: tips or service charge? And how should you go about doing this? Let's go through the options, how-tos and responsibilities as a business. Service charge or [...]
Our rating Lightspeed Retail is an advanced EPOS system for businesses with lots of products. Lightspeed Retail EPOS is an advanced POS system for iPad and desktop. The many inventory features make it a strong choice for serious SME retail shops, with room to grow online [...]
You've seen them in shops, perhaps you even have it set up in your own business, but the question lingers: how do you use a POS machine? First off, there is no such thing as a "POS machine". Rather, the term is sometimes used to refer to either a [...]
Shopify leads the inventory-rich ecommerce field, and Vend is the leading EPOS for inventory-rich brick-and-mortar shops. What does Vend offer face-to-face merchants that Shopify does not? And is Shopify the best choice for online sales when you're also selling in-store? Do they work well together? We analyse the things [...]
Our rating Square's card reader works with a free POS app and has competitive transaction fees. With no PIN pad, is it ideal for UK merchants? The company to introduce the original mobile card reader, Square, has brought us the first keypad-less card reader in the UK. The [...]
iZettle is the UK’s leading card reader point of sale (POS) company with webshop templates as an add-on; Shopify is the leading ecommerce platform with POS features and card reader as add-ons. Which is the best POS-ecommerce combination for a small business? Let’s compare the differences. [...]
The latest SumUp card machine, SumUp 3G, promises an easy way to accept cards, similar to myPOS Mini that has been around for longer. The pay-as-you-go card machines are purchased at a one-off price and card rates are fixed percentages, but payouts work differently. Let's compare the two options. [...]
Our rating Payzone's 12-month contracts for card machines are short, but terms and pricing typical. Payzone is one of Britain's leading merchant service providers of card machines at reasonable costs, with contracts shorter than elsewhere. They're especially popular with convenience stores due to the add-on payment [...]