Credit card machines and payment terminals
Hardware is the easy part. What sits behind it decides what you pay.
Credit card machine, debit machine, POS terminal: in Canada these all name the same family of hardware, and every modern unit taps, inserts, swipes and takes both debit and credit. The real decisions are form factor and integration. A fixed till wants a wired countertop unit, a dining room wants pay at table, a crew in the field wants tap to phone, and a business that invoices wants a virtual terminal instead of hardware at all.
Each hardware type below has its own page, including what it should cost and the questions worth asking before anything gets ordered. The agreement behind the machine moves far more money than the machine, which is why every hardware conversation we have starts with a statement.
A debit machine is the most searched for piece of payment hardware in Canada, and the machine itself is the least important part of the decision.
Explore → Debit machines in Vancouver Debit machines, VancouverA debit machine is the one piece of equipment nearly every Vancouver business acquires without shopping, because the bank offers one and the box arrives.
Explore → Countertop payment terminals Countertop terminalsThe countertop terminal is the workhorse of retail and quick service: wired in, always on, hundreds of transactions a day.
Explore → Portable and handheld terminals Portable terminalsPay at the table, pay at the gate, pay at the tailgate of a work truck.
Explore → Virtual terminal and phone payments Virtual terminalA virtual terminal takes payments with no hardware at all: card details keyed into a browser for phone orders, deposits and invoices.
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