Ensuring that you have the facility to receive credit and debit card transactions from visitors at your next event may seem obvious, but it is one in a long list of preparatory items that is easily overlooked. Whether your next event is a trade show or a consumer focused exhibition, you need to be able to accept credit and debit card transactions through a PDQ. Sterling Daisy works with the best to make available the very latest countertop and mobile credit card machines at competitive rates.
An official from the Payments Council said: “Although cash will not disappear in our lifetime, the continuing payments revolution will make it an ever smaller part of our spending. The noughties have been the decade of the debit card. Especially since chip and pin, which has speeded up transactions, it has become socially acceptable to buy small items by card now too, for example in a sandwich shop or a pub.”
If you are new to accepting credit cards, the setup process is not as daunting as you think, but nevertheless, it is something you need to be thinking about sooner rather than later. All new merchants need to be approved by a merchant bank in order for you to receive payments into your bank account via credit or debit card. This process can normally take anywhere from a month to two months! If you’ve left it to the very last minute, you could be in trouble! Sterling Daisy manages your merchant account application process to ensure that application forms are filled out correctly, sent off on time and approval is given in the minimum amount of time.
Maybe you already accept credit card payments? If this is the case then you will already understand the importance of doing so. However, if you unplug your existing terminal to take to your next event your business premises will miss out! You will have to also take into account the added costs of installing an analogue phone line to your exhibition stand, which can cost in excess of £200! Our mobile GPRS terminals have an inbuilt sim card, which removes the necessity for telephone line installation.
Unless you have a spare terminal lying around on a lengthy monthly agreement, you will no doubt struggle. Short term credit card terminal rental is the answer and we have a number of options ranging from counter top terminals to GPRS mobile terminals available on a daily rate, monthly rate or even tailored event packages. Contact our team now for more information.