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tim... · December 20th 18, 04:48 PM posted to uk.transport.london

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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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. Eg use of payment cards was common when I retired
13
years ago. 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??

when my kitchen units were delivered - 81 items [1], I was asked to check
off everything was there

so I asked for the picking list to compare with and he said "I can't print
that off until you have signed that the deliver is correct"

tim

[1] each door knob and hinge pack was a separate item

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Roland Perry