Which Card Machines Do I Need For My Small Business

No matter if your business serves customers on site, on the road or at their place we show you the pick of the most popular card machines available right now. Now more than ever, more and more consumers pay with card so it's essential to get a card machine that can provide the widest range of payments as possible.

A card machine is what you'd see in a retail store or restaurant and it can take card and contactless payments quickly and easily. Best of all, it's easy to setup and can be either owned outright, or effectively rented via a contract ranging from 12 - 48 months. Typically it can take a wide variety of card, contactless and app payments too.

It has the same purpose as a regular card machine, but is much smaller, stylish and compact. Some of these readers come with a keypad, whilst some newer models have a digital display keypad installed. Similar to a PDQ machine, it to can accept card, contactless payments and sometimes app payments too.

Each cost depends on three things:

- The upfront fee (if it is purchased outright) or the ongoing rental charge.
- Transaction fees
- Authorisation / Refund fees

A card machine can usually accept the following popular forms of payment:

- American Express,
- Android Pay,
- Apple Pay,
- Diners Club International,
- Google Pay,
- JCB,
- Samsung Pay,
- MasterCard,
- Maestro,
- UnionPay,
- V Pay,
- Visa,
- Visa Electron.