American Express Open Forum discusses three services that let small business owners accept credit card payments using an iPhone. This suggests the possibility of replacing the clunky Point-of-Sale devices with a sleek device like the newly released Apple iPad. Fast Company has a related story.
A great innovation for the small business owners – particularly for merchants who sell in exhibitions, tradeshows and farmer’s markets, and for home service providers like movers and maid services.
The three services reviewed are -
Updated on May 2, 2010: You can read my new blog post on using the iPad as a POS device here.
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This is awesome! Can this reader store to a database instead of being purely transactional? We sell subscriptions and thus need to store this info. Do you know of any device that also reads driver’s licenses? We also sell beer & wine.
@Mason. I can see how a device like this can be really useful for the Greenling delivery service. All these devices are transactional, as far as I know.
Regarding validating Driver’s Licenses, the closest thing I have heard of is this app. I’ve just heard of it, I have not used it, nor have seen it in use.
Ordoro » Blog Archive » Using the iPad as a POS device // May 3, 2010 at 5:27 pm
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