More and more users of smart phones who are encouraged to use their cell phones to pay. Among the advantages of paying with your mobile we could highlight convenience and safety of the process, factors which contributed to popularizing this function. The use of mobile phones to collect payments is not that widespread, although more and more alternatives are emerging to transform the mobile phone into a dataphone.
Currently, there are several ways to turn your cell phone into a data phone for your business. In many cases, the mobile phone becomes an intermediary in this process, as third-party devices are used to accept card payments (without without contact). However, there are also alternatives to recharge directly with your mobile without the need for material additional. In this article, we compile some of the most exciting options available on the market today.
To summarize
SumUp is the company behind one of the dataphones connected to our smartphone Most popular. The company sells several different devicesAir being the cheapest of them.
To summarize
SumUp is a platform for receiving payments with your mobile
Featuring a long-lasting battery, the device allows us to accept payments with all types of credit and debit cards: with payment by magnetic stripe, chip, PIN or contactless. For Android users, the company also allows you to receive payments directly with your mobile using the SumUp application.
SumUp Air Bundle Payment with debit, credit, Apple, Google Pay and more – Mobile terminal with RFID NFC technology – Bluetooth, pay by simply bringing your phone card or chip and PIN
*Some prices may have changed since the last review
Zettle
Picture | Zettle
Zettle is the alternative to PayPal for use our mobile as a dataphone. The company has a device called Zettle Reader 2 that allows us to start accepting mobile payments with all card types, including contactless payments.
Zettle
Zettle is the PayPal alternative for mobile payments.
The device has an application from which Manage payments and send receipts to customers
Zettle Reader 2 phone
*Some prices may have changed since the last review
Square
Square is another of the companies that allows us to start using our mobile phone to receive payments. Android device users can use the application by Square by accept contactless cards thanks to the function Tap to pay available on Android.
Square
With Square POS, you can easily make payments using your mobile phone.
In addition, the company provides us with several dataphones to accept smart card payments for a fairly economical price. Like other similar alternatives, this device connects to our mobile so that we can manage it from the application
Square Reader (2nd generation) – CC card reader for portable terminal
*Some prices may have changed since the last review
BBVA allows us to receive payments directly from our mobile
BBVA is one of the banks that has an application to accept card payments directly from our mobile phone. The application is named BBVA Collections and does not require the use of external card readers, although we can request one from the bank if we need one. There application It has some nice additional features, like the ability to send a purchase receipt by email to our customers.
BBVA Collections
With BBVA Cobros you can receive payments on your mobile without using additional hardware.
CaixaBank also offers this type of payments
As we told you a year ago, CaixaBank has an application that allows us to accept contactless payments directly on our Android without the need to use additional devices. To start using this application You just need to have a mobile phone with version 8.0 or higher Android and NFC technology.
POS on smartphone
Smartphone POS is CaixaBank’s alternative for mobile payments.
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