Simple, reliable card payments at the chair or the counter. No fuss, competitive rates, no long-term lock-in.
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Compact, buy-outright card machine with Wi-Fi and 4G connectivity. No monthly fees, no contract - just a one-off hardware cost and a simple flat transaction rate. Ideal for very low volume merchants.
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.
More and more customers expect to pay by card - especially younger clients who rarely carry cash. A simple, reliable card machine means you never turn away a paying customer.
We keep it straightforward for barber shops. You don’t need a complex POS system - you need a card machine that works, every time, at a fair price.
A countertop terminal at the till handles most barber shops perfectly. If you prefer to take payment at the chair, a portable terminal works too. We’ll recommend whichever fits your shop’s layout.
We come to your shop, set up the terminal, and walk you through how it works. It takes minutes, and there’s nothing complicated to learn.
Transaction fees matter when your average payment is £15–£25. We compare rates across multiple providers to find the most competitive deal for your volume.
Yes. The terminals we supply support on-screen tipping - the customer sees a prompt to add a tip before they complete payment. Percentage-based or custom amounts. Useful for barbers where tipping is common but increasingly awkward with cash becoming rare.
Yes, we can offer various options for this circumstance. For a sole-trader barber doing a handful of card payments a day, a card machine based on the 'no-use, no-fee' Blended rate billing model would be uno's recommendation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.