Perfect for those who run their own business like sole traders, the iZettle card reader allows you to take card payments, including contactless payments, easily with an average of just 5 seconds per transaction.
The reader works with iOS and Android devices with Bluetooth, and allows you to keep an accurate record of your transactions, along with an easy-to-use product library. The app also gives you access to free reports and analytics, to help you push your business further.
What other benefits are there?
No lock-in contracts
Pay as you go - you only pay per transaction
No merchant account needed - get payments in your bank account within 2-3 working days.
Battery life of the reader is 8 hours, or 100 transactions. and will charge via USB. If that doesn't meet your needs, you can pick up the iZettle reader + Dock together for £46.80 including VAT.
The dock charges your card reader, as well as doubling as an ideal display for the reader, on your counter.
Sound good? Hit the 'Get Link' deal to get started, and after signing up, you should have your card reader in a few days. Simple! :smile:
Please can you explain how a customer would pay with a card? I have a stripe account connected to my website
bargainbill
1 Jul 17#63
True but every established player is £15-£20 per month for terminal hire, min 12 month contract and also my personal experience with worldpay is min £7.50 per month so if you put nothing through in a month you're looking at min £22.50 for terminal + min fee.
ck12111
1 Jul 17#62
Whom is offering 0.8%? :smile:
OliWarner
1 Jul 17#61
This keeps coming up (are they a sponsor?) but don't get lured in by a fancy reader. They're charging you way too much per transaction.
The established players compete on price. Talk to some! I know multiple people paying 0.8% (online), 0.85% (card present), with free terminals.
Even at low volume, ask around. Your customers don't care about the brand of card reader.
snappyfish
29 Jun 17#60
Square seems like a good deal anyone used them?
jezzery
29 Jun 17#59
If you contact Barclaycard anywhere they will send one out. You have to answer some questions like what earnings you expect but it's pretty easy barclaycard-anywhere
jezzery
29 Jun 17#54
Barclays just sent us their latest contactless machine for free. Just ring them and they'll send it.
yus786 to jezzery
29 Jun 17#58
What number did you ring and what do you ask for please? I have a business account with them
Cloudane
29 Jun 17#56
Honestly I'd buy this to donate to my local pub if I thought I could convince them to use it. So tired of carrying cash around!
snappyfish to Cloudane
29 Jun 17#57
Good idea, I'll lend you my bank details for this card reader also....
Cant get rid of cash the world would collapse.
markweatherill
29 Jun 17#55
The other day I saw someone using a manual credit card voucher imprinting machine to take payment.
I hadn't seen one of those for literally years!
Parallax
29 Jun 17#53
I don't own one, but I have paid using it and the display shows what you'd expect (ie £50.00).
sylv
28 Jun 17#52
Here's another photo from their site.
Tigger21
28 Jun 17#51
Can any actual users confirm the currency display/readout? Looks to me like the Euro symbol, rather than GBP, so would guess it really does show 'normally' in UK i.e. £0,000.00 :-)
evilhomeruk
27 Jun 17#50
Looks at the pricing terms and charging schedule they withdrew 'private' accounts in March 2017 and now only offer business accounts to new customers.
doncoop
27 Jun 17#49
I'm going to be taking over a bar for a sports club.
Cannot decide between sumup, paypal here and square.
Anyone care to offer some experiences of any of those?
I think I'm leaning to square as one of the cheapest and also the software looks good. Looking to have something which will help with the POS and stock management.
Thanks all
retrend
27 Jun 171#48
Very expensive.
fishmaster
26 Jun 17#47
As mentioned previously square has a cheaper transaction fee, but higher startup cost >
Well.. would you walk Tesco and pay for your shopping by bank transfer...? ...exactly lol :laughing:
evilhomeruk to snappyfish
26 Jun 17#46
When your mates say "I'll transfer it when i get home" or "Argh my phone is out of battery, I'll do it later"... and never get round to it. You whip out your iZettle and take their dollar while they are with you.
No device required and can attach payment to invoice using wave apps.
Gareth79
26 Jun 17#44
Exactly. And worse is that we use a comma to separate thousands, they use a full-stop (ie. the characters are switched). The issue is that a customer would not be wrong to be suspiscious that they are authorising £50,000.
My assumption is that the device does in fact use a decimal point for GBP amounts, and the photo mock-up is wrong.
ollie87
26 Jun 17#43
It'd be very easy to catch you.
marksweeney
26 Jun 17#42
Yeah, really disappointing from a company who seem so switched on everywhere else.
marksweeney
26 Jun 171#40
This is a great device, very easy to use. However, customer service is appalling. My device is 18 months old, and after two weeks not in use started showing an error message. iZettle wouldn't touch it, and just suggested buying a new reader a full price. Very disappointing.
miaas to marksweeney
26 Jun 17#41
Mine broke after 13 months with hardly any use, same reply from them.
LuciaSynge0
26 Jun 17#39
Does this use for anywhere and anytime?
davemhaynes
25 Jun 17#38
The VAT miscalculated for me on the website and the total with VAT comes out above the correct £22.80, I'm getting 23% VAT. Will be phoning the company in the morning to fix.
conc
21 Jun 17#37
Have a card reader lite already. Just found out won't work with iPhone 7 as no audio jack. So as no offer for existing customers been told will have to fork out for a new card reader that does
bindiboo
20 Jun 17#29
the izettle app keeps crashing so am currently unable to use
Dyslexic_Dog to bindiboo
21 Jun 17#36
You need to update the app, my partners kept crashing until we updated it.
zan87
21 Jun 17#35
Seen a few traders at a gaming expo using these. Transaction was quick and smooth. Nifty little device.
freebiehunter
21 Jun 17#33
I've used izettle but prefer WorldPay Zinc. Very decent price though for this card reader
dewonderful
20 Jun 17#7
Where is the deal? It was this price 9 months ago
magicjay1986 to dewonderful
20 Jun 17#8
Last night (or the night before) it was £29.99+vat as I was looking to get it. I think the offers come and go but £19+vat is the best price i've personally seen it.
kazimierzkozlowski1 to dewonderful
21 Jun 17#31
Year ago was even free.
Tommy_K
20 Jun 17#30
Yes
dewonderful
20 Jun 171#28
Can you type in £20 and then bump into people on the street until you collide with a person with a contactless card in their pocket? I feel like one night in a London nightclub and I'd be a few grand richer. Oh I've given all the criminals on hukd ideas tonight :confused::neutral_face:
aLV426
20 Jun 171#27
Heat added - although now I know why local businesses ask for cash only...
xdaminis
20 Jun 171#9
Sumup 1.95% fixed, so better for lower use
oneeyedvic to xdaminis
20 Jun 17#12
Still not as good as Square at 1.75% :-)
james-young to xdaminis
20 Jun 17#26
sumup is the way I went. lower fee. money in next day
CharlesCalthrop
20 Jun 171#24
That's a great price for the reader and stand though for anyone contemplating a purchase be mindful that you'll need a Star Micronics printer if you wish to offer receipts. I think the least expensive is around £150 - I've tried a chip-and-pin thermal printer to no avail.
oneeyedvic to CharlesCalthrop
20 Jun 17#25
You can issue email receipts
haritori
20 Jun 172#23
we used Zettle in the past but people didnt seem to trust it, lost us sales now we use a Paypal Here, in fairness its £75.00 for the terminal but the Paypal Brand is worth the extra when your selling at a fairs and markets, I find people are wary of paying on these portable terminals, having PayPal on the machine really does help with the trust.
Also you can get a 1.5% fee on Paypal but need to be taking over £55k a month on the card system, personally we pay 2% right now.
smelladeal
20 Jun 17#22
Any good for those not on PAYE who provide dodgy services for shady characters?
pompey87
20 Jun 17#21
Oh, Incase the magnetic strip is not working? Do they still have to enter their pin?
magicjay1986
20 Jun 17#20
Manually entering the card details instead of just swiping :smile:
steevd
20 Jun 17#19
Hi there Have you any of the codes left please?
dush_yant
20 Jun 172#18
You're missing the point - the amount shown on the display is for British pounds £, so why should it display the Swedish decimal mark, it should display £50.00 for British pound and 50,00 kr for Swedish krona, not £50,00. There is no mix and match.
beentheredomthat
20 Jun 172#5
Is this purely just for business use?
I could do with something like this for personal use!
I'm always the one forking out for meals out etc and it's never easy getting money off people, but contactless payments into my account sound perfect!
(I know you can use online banking without any charges, but not everybody has that set up unfortunately!)
oneeyedvic to beentheredomthat
20 Jun 171#11
Yes you can. I wanted a second reader for my business and iZettle wouldn't give me a deal on second reader, so I got a deal similar to this in my wife's name and used her account details :-)
unconfirmed to beentheredomthat
20 Jun 17#17
Paym, PayPal or soon ApplePay
CraigT
20 Jun 171#16
Isn't it easier to get them to pay the bill using their credit card at the restaurant, most will take multiple part payments.
friar
20 Jun 17#15
I bought a SumUp reader for mobility business selling adapted cars, and the conditions to
abide to,with extra invoices etc were not worth the bother.They did give me card reader money back after prompting less handling fee about £5.00.
gabesdad
20 Jun 17#14
£59+VAT for existing accounts. No discount at all.
pompey87
20 Jun 17#13
What does Manual mean? I'm a bit confused with fees
My thoughts exactly. Seeing that comma I expect three noughts after the "50" (i.e. 50,000) and I'd definitely be baulking at that. Very amateurish.
sylv
20 Jun 171#4
Looking at the display in that photo, I can imagine a customer baulking at £50,00 instead of the £50.00 they were expecting. :neutral_face:
yus786
20 Jun 171#3
Chargeback information if anyone was wondering
Transaction Protection
Our transaction protection program will cover up to £250 of your chargebacks each month, provided you’ve followed our best practices for accepting card payments.
A chargeback arises when a card holder contacts his/her issuing bank disputing a card payment. The reason behind this could be one of many, such as the card holder not being satisfied with the product/service purchased or not remembering making the purchase at all.
You’ll be notified by us via email as soon as we’re informed of a chargeback, and you'll then have 10 days to get back to us with the information requested in the email.
Our transaction protection program will cover any chargeback no matter the outcome as long as (1) we determine that the disputed card payment was carried out in accordance with our terms and conditions, (2) all requested information has been provided to us within the stated time parameters and (3) the chargeback is within the £250 monthly coverage
magicjay1986
20 Jun 171#2
Good price :smile: Square is a good alternative but its a slightly higher upfront cost (and I think more people will trust the look of the iZettle reader when passing card info across). Square has a lower transaction fee at 1.75% (2.5% for manual, same as iZettle).
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Opening post
The reader works with iOS and Android devices with Bluetooth, and allows you to keep an accurate record of your transactions, along with an easy-to-use product library. The app also gives you access to free reports and analytics, to help you push your business further.
What other benefits are there?
No lock-in contracts
Pay as you go - you only pay per transaction
No merchant account needed - get payments in your bank account within 2-3 working days.
Battery life of the reader is 8 hours, or 100 transactions. and will charge via USB. If that doesn't meet your needs, you can pick up the iZettle reader + Dock together for £46.80 including VAT.
The dock charges your card reader, as well as doubling as an ideal display for the reader, on your counter.
Sound good? Hit the 'Get Link' deal to get started, and after signing up, you should have your card reader in a few days. Simple! :smile:
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The established players compete on price. Talk to some! I know multiple people paying 0.8% (online), 0.85% (card present), with free terminals.
Even at low volume, ask around. Your customers don't care about the brand of card reader.
If you contact Barclaycard anywhere they will send one out. You have to answer some questions like what earnings you expect but it's pretty easy barclaycard-anywhere
Cant get rid of cash the world would collapse.
I hadn't seen one of those for literally years!
Cannot decide between sumup, paypal here and square.
Anyone care to offer some experiences of any of those?
I think I'm leaning to square as one of the cheapest and also the software looks good. Looking to have something which will help with the POS and stock management.
Thanks all
https://squareup.com/gb/reader
I use stripe: https://stripe.com/gb/pricing
No device required and can attach payment to invoice using wave apps.
My assumption is that the device does in fact use a decimal point for GBP amounts, and the photo mock-up is wrong.
Also you can get a 1.5% fee on Paypal but need to be taking over £55k a month on the card system, personally we pay 2% right now.
I could do with something like this for personal use!
I'm always the one forking out for meals out etc and it's never easy getting money off people, but contactless payments into my account sound perfect!
(I know you can use online banking without any charges, but not everybody has that set up unfortunately!)
abide to,with extra invoices etc were not worth the bother.They did give me card reader money back after prompting less handling fee about £5.00.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark
Transaction Protection
Our transaction protection program will cover up to £250 of your chargebacks each month, provided you’ve followed our best practices for accepting card payments.
A chargeback arises when a card holder contacts his/her issuing bank disputing a card payment. The reason behind this could be one of many, such as the card holder not being satisfied with the product/service purchased or not remembering making the purchase at all.
You’ll be notified by us via email as soon as we’re informed of a chargeback, and you'll then have 10 days to get back to us with the information requested in the email.
Our transaction protection program will cover any chargeback no matter the outcome as long as (1) we determine that the disputed card payment was carried out in accordance with our terms and conditions, (2) all requested information has been provided to us within the stated time parameters and (3) the chargeback is within the £250 monthly coverage