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Trinity
22-09-2007, 11:15 AM
I have looked into getting POS credit card facility when I am at craft fairs but I can't really justify the cost. It may or may not encourage people to buy, but when I was at a craft fair recently I noticed a lady who had a lap-top and she was getting people to buy via her website, then paying through paypal.

I know it is a bit of a long road to get payment and not sure if the customer would go through the hassle, but she did manage to get sales and she was certain that if she didn't have the laptop then she would not have got the sales.

Anyway, I have a laptop but then you are not always guarnteed internet access but what I was thinking of was getting a phone that had internet access and then getting customers to log on to my site and then they could buy via paypal there. Do you think it would work, and that way all I need to fork out is the the cost of the phone and the cost of the connection to the interet (which I will need to look into for costs).

And would you use this method if you were at craft fair?
Chell
22-09-2007, 07:26 PM
Do a search on here for Paypal pro in threads. Its £20 per month, I think knotjustjigs and a few others use it.


ETA: http://www.mumszone.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=43428
trogette
09-10-2007, 01:55 PM
the last show I did I took a few payments on nochex through the shop, even though people had to wait for me to sort things out a couple of times they waited and paid. If you're going to do it, it helps to have the laptop really accessible and it can run a slideshow or a video while you're not actually taking payments.
Bag Crazy
17-09-2008, 08:56 AM
I have a protx account and can take payments over the phone. If at a show I can use the laptop and process the payments through my virtual terminal at protx. If there is not a connection, I have a back up of the old fashioned swipe card machine with the paper chits that i can use, this is provided through streamline where i hold my merchant account.

Protx costs me £20 a month and then I pay a transaction percentage to streamline for processing the payment.

It works well for me, if you have any questions then just ask. It's kind of confusing at first!

Caroline