A free card machine, no rental, no PCI fee, and a rate quoted from your own statement.
A hairdresser, a boiler engineer, a vape shop, an opticians. This is built for exactly that kind of business. Put your own numbers in below.
Published figures for the big providers put terminal rental at £12.50 to £30 a month per machine, with a PCI fee on top. It costs the same in year four as in month one, for a device you will never own. On a small counter that is often more than the card processing itself.
A job finished at four and invoiced at nine is a job you chase for a fortnight. The card machine runs on wifi and 4G, and card payments keep processing offline through Shift4, so you take the money on the doorstep, at the market stall or at the end of the round.
Shift4 payment infrastructure
$200B+
The card machine, the network and the processing are Shift4’s. The UK company you deal with, and the person who installs your terminal, is ours.
This page is not written for one type of business. A hairdresser, a boiler engineer, a vape shop and an opticians all take payment the same way, on the same terminal, on the same account. If a card gets tapped, swiped or waved at a phone, this covers it, whoever you are and whatever you sell, on a counter, on a van, or at someone else's front door.
A hairdresser and a plumber do not need different machines. They need the same four things: hardware that costs nothing, a setup someone actually turns up for, support that answers, and a machine that still works in years to come.
Free hardware. The card machine, the setup and the installation cost nothing, with £0 upfront.
Simple setup. Installed face to face, at your counter.
24/7 support. Shift4 support around the clock, every day of the year.
Lifetime warranty. Shift4 publish a lifetime warranty on the SkyTab workstation.
Card payments are one part of what Shift4 runs. If you land here from an advert and only want a terminal, that is all this page is about. If you also want a till, a kiosk or a way to take orders online, it is the same supplier and the same account, not a second contract to manage.
Two things worth a closer look before you get in touch: how the payment side actually works, and what you will not find added to the bill later.
Four things that show up on other people's invoices and never show up on ours.
No PCI fee, on any account, of any size.
No subscription on the terminal, so there is nothing to cancel later.
Free hardware, free installation and £0 upfront, whatever you sell.
24/7 support, every day of the year, including the days everyone else is closed.
All of it sits on the same account, so you can pick only what you actually need.
Chip and PIN, contactless and mobile wallets in one device, free with the account.
Takes payment at the counter, the door, the van or out on the road.
A compact till for a counter that wants more than a card machine, without the space a full EPOS needs.
Lets customers order and pay without queuing at the counter, useful well beyond hospitality.
A free machine is only worth having if someone answers when it stops working. This is what backs it up once it is switched on.
Help is available around the clock, not just office hours.
Hardware worth over £1,000, covered for as long as you have it.
Someone sets it up with you in person, not a box left at reception.
One figure to know before you agree to anything, and it does not move once you are in.
To get started
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No. The card machine is free hardware with free setup and £0 upfront, and there is no subscription on the terminal itself. Published figures for the big providers put terminal rental between £12.50 and £30 a month each, which on a single machine over a few years is more than the device is worth.
Yes. It runs on your wifi and on 4G, so it works in a stockroom, a market stall or anywhere signal is patchy. Card payments also continue to process offline through Shift4, so a dropped line does not stop you taking money.
Your rate is quoted from your own card statement, not a generic price list. Send it over and you will have a number before you commit to anything.
Yes. It is portable and works on 4G, so it goes to a market stall, a call out job or a delivery round. It prints a receipt wherever you are, or sends one by email.
No. This is a standalone card machine account. If you want a till or an EPOS later, it can sit on the same account, but nothing here commits you to one.
Send a few details and we will quote your rate before you commit to anything.
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