The only POS that prints its own margin
Buy a reader. Open the app. Start taking cards.
Every card reader company takes a margin on your sales. Most bury it inside one blended rate you cannot check. Ours is 0.4% and a cent, printed on every page of this site, on top of Stripe's own published rate.
Free shipping when you buy a reader with the plan.
Always the same deal
$5 a month, per business
0.4% + 1¢ on top of Stripe
The reader is yours, bought once
Free shipping with a plan
Start where you are
What does your counter look like?
A trestle table
Markets and fairs
Different zip code every weekend, everything in the van. Start at $79.
This is me →
A till and a window
Shops and boutiques
Stock you have to trust on a Saturday, and a website behind it.
This is me →
A hatch and a queue
Food and drink
Forty things on the menu, sold fast, to people who can see you.
This is me →
Four counters, one business
Hotels and multi-site
A bar, a shop, a spa and a desk. One account, not four bills.
This is me →
Four questions
Not sure which reader? Let us pick.
Nobody should have to read four spec sheets to spend seventy-nine dollars.
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one-off, then $5 a month
The shop
Pick a reader. Buy it outright.
All Stripe hardware, all on the same fees. Availability varies by region.
Prices exclude sales tax. Shipping is free on any reader bought with the plan.
Work it out
Move the sliders. See exactly what we take.
Providers that quote one blended rate have their own margin buried inside it. Ours is the orange slice, and you can size it yourself.
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Stripe charges its own published rate on top, directly to you, and we take no part of it. See the full breakdown.
Fees
Stripe's rate, and 0.4% + 1¢ for us.
Every provider adds a margin on top of what the card networks charge, and most fold it into a single blended number so you can't see it. Ours is the 0.4% and the cent. Nothing else comes off a sale.
Paid to Stripe
Stripe's published rate
Set by Stripe, charged by Stripe, visible in your own Stripe dashboard. We never mark it up.
Paid to us
0.4% + 1¢
Per payment, on top of Stripe's rate. The same number in person and on your own online orders.
Payouts
Same day
Instant payouts through Stripe Connect, so you can restock the day you sell. Bank setup takes a few clicks.
Worked example. On a $40 in-person sale, our share is 17¢. Stripe's rate is charged separately and shown on your own Stripe statement, so you can check both numbers against each other whenever you like.
Stripe rates vary by country, card type and payment method. Non-domestic and commercial cards carry different rates — the 0.4% + 1¢ does not change.
Upgrades
The five dollars gets you selling. Add the rest when you need it.
The account covers the reader, the app and getting paid. Everything below is a separate upgrade you turn on from the dashboard, and off again the month you don't want it.
Visual Site Builder
A storefront built from the catalogue you already keep, on your own domain, sharing one stock count with the counter.
Social Catalog Importer
Your Instagram posts become products in your catalogue, synced as you post. TikTok coming soon.
Smart Data Importer
Accounting packages, local delivery services and other third-party systems, connected to the same sales data.
Customer tools
Digital receipts that collect contacts with consent, then campaigns and loyalty built on top of them.
Each upgrade is priced on its own and billed monthly alongside the account.
The app
A till in your pocket, not a payment button.
Most cheap readers hand you a keypad and stop there. The account includes the products, the stock count and the reporting, on as many devices as you want to run it on.
01 / Selling
Checkout
Products and variants, refunds, split payments, discounts and digital receipts. Works on the reader, a phone or a browser.
02 / Stock
Inventory
One catalogue, one stock count. It decrements as you ring up, wherever the sale happened and whichever device took it.
03 / Books
Reporting
Takings by day, by product and by staff member, with shift reports that reconcile against your Stripe payouts.
If it does not suit you
Send it back within thirty days.
We would rather you tried it at a real counter than read about it here. If the reader is not right, return it inside thirty days and we refund it, postage included.
30 days
To return the reader for a full refund, shipping on us.
12 months
Hardware warranty. A replacement ships before you post the old one.
Any month
Cancel the account. No notice period, no exit fee.
Keep it
Cancel and the reader stays yours. You bought it, not rented it.
Bigger counters
More than one till? Order the lot in one go.
Shop kit
The whole counter, boxed
$1,500one-off, shipped free
Multi-site
Build your own order
Quotebuilt in the wizard
Underneath it all, Stripe
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Before you buy
Ask us whether it fits your counter.
Tell us what you sell and how, and we will tell you which reader to buy — including when the answer is that another provider suits you better.
Most-asked, before buying
Answers to all four are in Your first day. If yours is not there, write to us.
Questions merchants ask us first.
What exactly does the $5 include?
A supported account: the POS app on as many devices as you like, your catalogue, stock and reporting, and the ability to get paid. The store, the marketplace and the integrations are separate upgrades.
Why is there no free plan?
Because a free account is paid for somewhere else, usually in the transaction rate. We would rather charge five dollars and keep our cut at 0.4% and a cent.
How long until I can take a payment?
Onboarding and bank details run through Stripe Connect and take a few minutes. Most merchants sell on the day the reader arrives.
When do I get paid?
Payouts run through Stripe and can be instant, so you can restock the same day you sell.
When is shipping free?
On any reader bought together with the plan, on the shop kit, and on multi-site orders over $1,000 of terminals.
Can I cancel?
Any month. The reader is yours — you bought it, you didn't rent it — and your sales history stays exportable.
Seventy-nine dollars and an afternoon.
That's a reader, an account and your first card payment. Shipping is free when you buy the two together.