Online Pre-Payments ?

[Guest vin]

Do any of you chaps out there take online payments or have one of those mobile credit card machines to take payments for services rendered ?

 

If so what system do any of you recommend..?

 

Is it all cash in hand ?

 

Some folk just wont pay cash these days.

[Phil Lloyd 10,736]

Do any of you chaps out there take online payments or have one of those mobile credit card machines to take payments for services rendered ?

 

If so what system do any of you recommend..?

 

Is it all cash in hand ?

 

Some folk just wont pay cash these days.

 

Yes, my business associate at http://www.hampshire-waspcontrol.co.uk does this all the time,...he rates the system most highly....

I only operate in hard cash,...and prefer, gold rings/teeth, bracelets, trinkets, etc,...but then,.. I am very, very,.old...

Edited April 30, 2017 by Phil Lloyd

[TOMO 24,838]

Do any of you chaps out there take online payments or have one of those mobile credit card machines to take payments for services rendered ?

 

If so what system do any of you recommend..?

 

Is it all cash in hand ?

 

Some folk just wont pay cash these days.

 

,cash mate or bank transfer on line ,,dead easy,,,,trina has a card reader, for when she stands her market stall at events,,,i thnk that is extreamly good envestment,,,folk can impulse buy,,,,but thats a bit difrent on a stall,,,,,

[TOMO 24,838]

oh,,,and after you do your survey ,,,and agree that it will cost x amount of £££ to do the work,you want the cash now,,,not in a week or 10 days when the site is clear

[Caravan Monster 323]

I have to accept BACS (online banking payments) on the chimney sweeping. In my experience you have to be careful because customers tend to forget about it, or emailed invoices go straight to their junk folder and then you have to waste time chasing up the bill. It seems that many pay for everything on a card now. It is of course normally the people that obviously have plenty of money that don't have £45 cash in the house. When they book, I ask them to have cash to pay with.

[the monkey 337]

i run a gardening business

cheque or ,bank transfer are the norm

for regulars they often set up a standing order.

 

rarely do they want to pay cash...so its mostly cheques

[Guest vin]

Cash is no longer king these days.

 

I need one of them machines to swipe the crack

[Torquemada 288]

Check out iZettle... Very handy...

[trappa 517]

I asked somewhere about this as well. Do you need decent wifi or internet to make the transaction?? I do a lot of work out in the sticks where theres little or no chance of internet. Theorhetically they seem perfect little items for getting paid.

[Torquemada 288]

The iZettle app on your phone works via your 3G or 4G connection. You just need a decent phone signal. The app connects to your card machine via Bluetooth, put the amount in, put card into machine (or contact-less but I have one of the very old machines), hey presto.

 

With this lot there is no monthly charge, but they do charge 2.75% per transaction.

[Phil Lloyd 10,736]

I don't earn enough to warrant owning such an impressive gadget,...it sounds great fun,...but in my opinion,..ya canna beat crisp, clean notes..

 

 

Edited May 1, 2017 by Phil Lloyd

[Rowan 308]

Cash, cheque or bacs , and plenty of time chasing up payments , that people tell you they've either sent or paid online already when they haven't.

[Phil Lloyd 10,736]

"Pay on completion of job"....or we send in Drones...

[trappa 517]

I was at a rat job this morning and she paid me before i started. Kept telling her pay on completion but she was having none of it. Wish they were all like that. Ha ha.

[BRY 79]

Did a flea job sat, customer says Landlord is paying.

 

I say I need payment from landlord before I start treatment.

 

Customer rings landlord , landlord pays over the phone by card on my mobile machine JOB DONE