Professional card payments at the reception desk or treatment room. Competitive rates, simple setup, tipping built 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.
Beauty salons, nail bars, and spas need card payments that match the professionalism of the business. Clients expect to pay by card, often want to add a tip, and your equipment should look the part on the reception desk.
We assess your operation, understand your appointment flow and payment setup, and recommend a terminal that fits.
A countertop terminal at reception gives you fast, reliable payment processing for walk-in and appointment clients. The PAX A800 has a clean, modern look that suits a professional salon environment.
On-screen tipping is built into the terminals we supply - clients can add a percentage or custom tip amount when they pay by card. No awkward conversations, no separate tip jars.
The PAX A800 is rental-free for your first machine - great if you want no upfront monthly cost. The PAX A920 has a lower transaction rate, which can save money if your salon processes a lot of card payments. We’ll compare both for your specific situation.
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. A portable card machine based on the 'no-use, no-fee' Blended rate billing model would be uno's recommendation.
There's an ideal solution for this situation found on uno's 'compare' page.
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.