First of many I hope

[Bubblecraft]

Just finished up a job today for an elderly couple that I've done work for previously. Before I got the chance to say "How would you like to pay?", the customer said "I noticed on your website you take card now. Can I pay with that?"
They've always paid me by cheque & I already had the speel ready to say "I accept cards now" but she bet me to it lol.
I have been promoting it a fair bit & it seems to be working! Hope I can limit the amount of cheques I get with pushing card payments & maybe one day stop taking cheques.
Hope today was the first of many more to come!

 

[Brian the Tile]

nice one i was thinking about card payments myself,i wonder also would they make people do there tiling jobs sooner than later if you know what i mean,might try it out and see,cards could have advantages me thinks

 

[Bubblecraft]

They have made a great impact to my sales as people can spend more using their credit card & gives them the chance to pay up. Best of all its all free (apart from the 2.75% per transaction)

 

[AMtek]

Who are you with for your card payments bubblecraft? signed up with izettle but visa payments are far too long winded

 

[Bubblecraft]

IZettle is what I use. Understand what your saying about visa payments but quickest & easiest way is to put in your own number & complete the transaction yourself. There are plenty of other card terminals out there like Worldpay etc but they all have monthly fees etc.
IZettles working for me

 

[AMtek]

I did try that and put my own card details in and it worked no problem, i didn't know if it would only let you do it a couple of times or not. But actually i have an iphone for the business and a personal one so if one didn't work i could try the other. you could always send the text to yourself beforehand so its ready for them too. Think i will give it a try now! haha

 

[Bubblecraft]

I've taken 4 different Visa cards now by entering in my own number. Works every time

 

[AMtek]

i'll give it a try then, my only other concern is max transaction amount and transaction limit per day but even if i use up my daily limit then do things the old fashioned way. Its definately something that is going to be very common soon

 

[Bubblecraft]

Have you got it set up as business or personal?
For business, maximum amount of transactions per day for MasterCard, Amex & DCC is £15,000 (£2,500 per single transaction). Maximum transactions per day for Visa is £2,000 (£500 per single transaction).
You can take up to 4 payments from the one client & if it exceeds the £2k limit, just come back the following day or they can pay the rest in cash, cheque or Paypal

 

[AMtek]

i've just set up a personal one, seemed easier until i could have a play with it. The way i read it you could only charge £500 on a single card in one day? but a max of £1500 in a day spread over several cards? considering most cards are visa its the only thing i paid much attention to. I have been looking into the paypal remote terminal for my office PC and it seems a good option apart from the fact that it takes 3- 4 days to transfer funds from paypal to a bank account so you might as well take a cheque, the only advantage is that the transaction is procesed immediately so you know they have the funds available and they can use a credit card