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I'm looking to put in a CC terminal, cash only just isn't working anymore when you have to turn people away from a purchase you already had SOLD! it's hard enough to get peeps in the door, turning $ away just isn't an option anymore.

any ideas who would be cheap to use?
just stand alone terminal can be dialup, just looking for low rates and good deals on the montly fee's

I have seen plenty of ad's haven't called yet, wanted yur opinons.

Planning to do it late Oct. 1st week of Nov.

Thanks!
Tony

I haven't shopped around much, we use Mercury Pay with RTS. Since you're using a standalone terminal, you might ask your bank what they have to offer.

We have a business in our town that uses the square on their iphone. I thought it was completely insane, because she was having her employees use their phones to process cc transactions, but apparently it's legit. However, you have to have a smart phone to work there.

If you have a membership with Sam's Club or Costco check with them. They usually have some pretty good deals for members.

If you are a CBG member you can get Vantiv for substantial savings. We switched a few months back and our processing fees have gone down a lot. RTS supports them too.

We now processed 2/3rds of our credit card transactions through an Android cell phone using Square. I've had it for more than a year and started doing the majority of our transactions throuh it in March after Mercury Pay started creating a new fee every month. I love it and found that it works very well after you get comfortable with it. Go to SQUAREUP.COM and read all about it. I bought my current cell phone for $94 on ebay. (You can buy a used phone for less.) You don't actually need to have a cell phone contract on it at all if you have access to wifi in your theater. You just need the cell phone and the Square account. The cost is 2.75% every time you swipe a card. There are no other fees period. If you don't use it it costs you nothing. I do have the customers sign the phone with a stylus as most people are more comfortable with that than a finger. I print the receipt out of RTS as that is much faster than having the customer input enough information into have the phone email or text the receipt. It is just as fast as charging through the RTS terminal. I figured out how to monitor the credit card charges and balance them with my regular RTS reports using the Square online reports. The only reasons why we are not 100% Square is that I don't trust my concession employees to put the correct numbers in the cellphone and I am worried about them dropping/breaking it. I'm considering switching to Ipads and the Square cash register program for my concession stand in the future. RTS may be losing out then on those license fees. In the meantime I still get those monthly statements from Mercury Pay but I save hundreds of dollars every month for all the transactions that they never see. I'm happy