Card machine for your charity shop

Accept card payments and boost donations - simple terminals with the lowest possible fees so more money goes to your cause.

Common challenges

  • Missing sales and donations from people who don't carry cash
  • Need the absolute lowest transaction fees to maximise funds
  • Volunteers need something incredibly simple to use
  • Budget constraints on terminal hardware
  • Don't want long contracts tying up charity funds

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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

Why charity shops choose uno

Fewer people carry cash every year. If your charity shop is cash-only, you’re losing sales and donations. A card machine brings in more revenue - and every penny matters when it’s going to a good cause.

Lowest possible fees

Every pence in transaction fees is a pence less for your charity. We compare rates across every provider to find the absolute lowest cost for your transaction volume.

Simple enough for volunteers

Charity shops often rely on volunteers who change regularly. The terminal needs to be so simple that anyone can use it with minimal explanation.

Low upfront cost

We understand charity budgets. We’ll find options with minimal hardware costs and no long-term contract commitments.

What you get from uno

  • The most competitive rates available for your volume
  • A terminal simple enough for any volunteer to use
  • Low or no upfront hardware costs
  • Flexible terms with no long lock-in

Common questions from charity shop owners

Our shop is staffed by volunteers - is the card machine easy enough for anyone to use?

The terminals are designed for simplicity. A contactless payment is literally: enter the amount, customer taps, done. We walk your team through the process during setup, and it takes about five minutes to learn. Most volunteers are comfortable with it after two or three transactions.

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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