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blt_bnjzZ@apxn1t0s2sxfqo4mj_lvantuc.com · December 18th 18, 01:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:28:45 +0000
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 18/12/2018 12:13, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 11:37:25 on Tue, 18 Dec
2018, remarked:
Meanwhile vast swathes of both the public and private sectors are
operating in the 21st century with employees placing orders and
making
payments online.Â* Eg use of payment cards was common when I
retired 13
years ago.Â* There were naturally limits on how much could be
charged on

A lot of sole traders don't want the hassle or the fees from
lugging a card

machine around when they go to jobs.

Don't need a separate machine, there are smart phone apps that will do
the job now.

How does a smartphone app read chip and pin then? Not all cards are
contactless and not all phones have NFC.

Few smart phones don't have it now and the number of non-contactless

Really? ITYF most don't.

cards is diminishing rapidly.

Still a 30 quid limit. Useless for almost all tradesmens jobs anyway.

This whole thread is going off at cross purposes. When the adverts say
you can take smartphone payments without a machine, they mean one of
those DECT-phone sized dedicated machines with a thermal printer (hold
that thought).

The offering is a cardreader that plugs into a smartphone.

But how does one print a receipt??

email.

Sure, just hand over your email address to Mr Random Tradesman. Brilliant idea.