Card machine and digital payment options for businesses

3 benefits of adopting digital payments methods

1). Close the door to bad debtors

If you are a service provider with payment terms over a given period, you are running the risk of the customer refusing to pay for the services rendered, or only part paying and drawing out the payment terms unfairly and unjustly. If you are using digital payments, particularly card machines (such as sum-up, square and iZettle) you can take payment from the customer there and then.

So, whether you are a plumber, painter, podiatrist, or potter, you can have peace of mind that payment for your work is on its way to your account upon completion of the job.

2). Spend less time working in your business, so you can start working on your business

Digital payments will dramatically reduce your time spent working in your business doing menial admin. Say goodbye to difficult record keeping of cash payments and commutes to the bank to deposit cash payments received. With digital payments, you’ll have far less admin and can spend that time working on growing your business instead.

3). Keep up with your competitors and the world

Owing largely (but not wholly) to the Covid-19 pandemic, cash is now a far less popular transactional medium than it was 5 or 10 years ago. As a result, prospective customers are far more likely to have a card to hand than cash. If you treat card as your preferred payment method, you are more appealing and easier to do business with for customers and therefore reduce the risk of them looking for business elsewhere.

We’ve all been there; you see a sign noting ‘cash only’ and take your business elsewhere. Not due to poor quality of the items for sale or the poor customer service but because the convenience of a card payment was not available. This fact loses businesses nationwide innumerable sales every day. Don’t let yours be one of them.