Card machines for agricultural businesses

Reliable card payments for everything from animal feed to country clothing - competitive rates across a wide range of transaction values.

Common challenges

  • Mix of low and high-value purchases across different product lines
  • Rural location means 4G backup matters for connectivity
  • Chasing bank transfers for larger trade orders
  • Current card machine is unreliable or outdated
  • Want something straightforward for counter staff

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Recommended solutions

PAX A920

Portable/countertop Android terminal with 4.9-inch touchscreen, built-in Wi-Fi & 4G connectivity, and thermal printing. Its form-factor means it's ideal when payments need to be taken away from the counter. Easily handles over-the-phone payments, and is configurable for full POS integration with many third-party POS systems.

  • 4.9-inch HD touchscreen
  • Built-in printer
  • Wi-Fi and 4G connectivity
  • Contactless, Chip & Pin, over-the-phone
  • Can be integrated with multiple POS systems
  • Android payment-only terminal
Contract
negotiable

PAX A800

Portable/countertop Android terminal with 5.7-inch touchscreen and Payment & POS functionality. Built-in Wi-Fi & 4G connectivity, along with thermal printing. Includes merchant branding on-screen, an intuitive over-the-phone payment flow, on-board POS features, and is configurable for full POS integration.

  • 5.7-inch HD touchscreen
  • Built-in printer
  • Wi-Fi & 4G
  • Contactless, Chip & Pin, over-the-phone
  • Fast contactless transacting
  • Integrates with its provider's own POS only
  • Android POS and payments
Contract
negotiable

Common questions from agricultural owners

We sell to both trade and retail customers - does one terminal cover both?

Yes. Whether it's a farmer buying a tonne of feed or a walker buying a pair of wellies, the same terminal processes both transactions. There's no distinction between trade and retail from the card machine's perspective.

We're in a rural location - will the terminal get a signal?

The 4G terminals work on mobile data networks. Rural coverage has improved significantly, but we check your specific location before recommending a solution. If 4G is marginal, a Wi-Fi-connected terminal on your shop's broadband is the fallback. Most agricultural merchants we've set up have had no signal issues.

We're in a rural location with patchy Wi-Fi - will the card machine work?

This is exactly why 4G connectivity matters so much. The portable terminals we recommend connect to multiple mobile data networks independently of your shop's Wi-Fi. As long as you have some kind of mobile signal from any of the UK's mobile networks, you'll be able to take reliable card payments. Setting up businesses in rural locations - including Farm Shops - is an uno speciality!

General questions about uno
Which card machine is right for my business?

The right card machine depends on how the business trades. A fine-dining restaurant in Covent Garden, a market trader at Glasgow's Barras and a pub beside Cardiff Arms Park take payments in completely different ways, and no single machine suits all three. uno starts by understanding how a business actually operates, and only then recommends - from a range of providers rather than from one.

Do all the card machines uno recommends take contactless?

Yes, every one of them. Apple Pay, Google Pay and contactless cards are accepted as standard on every machine uno recommends; contactless is how most UK customers now pay, and every machine features it as standard.

Will I be able to take 'over-the-phone' payments?

For most merchants, yes - available on-screen along with contactless and Chip & Pin. The small minority of high-risk business-types that are not offered over-the-phone payments by default are the exception - for the vast majority, 'over-the-phone' payments will be offered as standard.

How can we process refunds?

From the card machine, in a few taps. Refund a sale on the same day and it is cancelled outright, with the money never leaving the customer's account; refund it after the provider's daily cut-off and the customer's bank typically takes 3-5 days to return it. Every machine uno recommends handles both, and the difference is only in how quickly the customer sees the money.

Is PCI compliance as much of a chore as it is with my current provider?

With several of the providers uno works with the merchant does nothing at all, because the provider handles PCI on their behalf; with the others it is a few minutes once a year. Nobody uno works with makes it complicated, and uno tells a merchant which they are getting before anything is signed.

How long does it take to get set up?

Most businesses are up and running within a few days. uno handles the installation and configuration, then walks the merchant and their staff through everything.

Ready to choose the right card machine?

We make the effort to understand how you operate, and only then recommend the solution that's right for your business - not the provider's.

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