if you have a shop – or create something to sell – don’t you wish you could just collect credit card payments anywhere? like at a holiday fair, or a sidewalk sale, or a pop up shop or a shop within a shop, or at a trunk show? the list goes on for places to make potential sales. i remember declining to be involved in off-site group sale because how would i collect payment? take an imprint of a credit card? how totally old school. checks? they’re usually bad in my experience. cash? most women i know don’t carry a lot of cash.
but that was before iphones. i was thinking how cool it would be if there was an app that could allow people to collect credit card info on the go. and voila!
check out Square Up (cute name too). there’s a teensy card reader that you plug into your smart phone (in the ear phone jack). that part is free. all you pay are swipe fees (which you do anyway when you accept credit cards). no contracts – just pay if you use it.
seems like this has the opportunity to open a lot of new doors! what do you think? has anyone tried this?
