How to Process Credit Cards with Your iPhone or iPad

Accepting credit cards online is easier to accomplish today than ever before. Using your iPad, you can process credit card transactions anywhere, anytime, even while you’re on vacation if you have an internet connection. If you have an iPhone, you can even carry out iPhone credit card processing. Using your iPhone or iPad you can effortlessly as well as safely and securely take debit and credit card payments anywhere you are. You’ll never miss another sale again or have to wait for days to receive the payment via snail mail. Then there’s always that “It’s in the mail” statement we’ve all heard.

Using your iPad for credit card processing is not only convenient, it means you no longer need to lease cumbersome credit card machines for processing and pay their monthly leasing fees. Even if you owned your merchant machine outright, with iPhone credit card processing or using your iPad you don’t need to be at home or the office to run a credit card payment. Gone are those low tech days. Accepting payment virtually is much easier and quicker. With a credit card processing App you can even hand your iPad to a client for his signature which is pretty amazing.

The App that makes this possible is Square which is a revolutionary point of sale alternative that takes the place of credit car terminal or outdated cash register. It will accept virtually all key credit and debit cards including American Express, Discover, Visa and MasterCard.

iPhone credit card processing as will as with as using your iPad or iPod touch is not only convenient, they don’t require a contract, you don’t need a merchant account which means you’ll have no monthly fees. You’ll receive a free of charge Square credit card reader via postal mail. Within just a few minutes of downloading the necessary App, you’re ready for business. The related credit card processing costs are simple – 2.75% per swipe of the credit card. To get started, all you need to do is the following:

1. Download the credit card service App

2. Activate your account

3. Start accepting credit cards

iPhone credit card processing is the new, state of the art way to get the job done from anywhere you happen to be. Meeting with a client at a coffee shop? No problem. You can seal the deal immediately. If you’ve ever had a garage sale, you’ve had those times when people didn’t have cash with them. No problem – with Square and your iPhone or iPad, you can simply run their card. When you’re ready to start your credit card processing you just plug in your totally free card reader and begin swiping. You’ll also be able to track all your tips, sales, taxes as well as send out electronic receipts. Best of all, the entire process is secure and safe. TheSquare App complies with all of the industry security practices in order to ensure the safety of your client’s personal and card information as well as your own.

OJ Thomas is the VP of Veritrans LLC which is a merchant account provider that offers wireless credit card processing services as well as a range of other credit card processing services.

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