Card machine for your convenience store

Fast, reliable card payments for your convenience store - competitive rates on high-volume transactions, simple and sturdy.

Common challenges

  • Very high transaction volume with small average values
  • Per-transaction fees eat into already thin margins
  • Need speed — long queues lose customers
  • Terminal must be robust for constant daily use
  • Open long hours — need reliable equipment

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Recommended solutions

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

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

Why convenience stores choose uno

Convenience stores process hundreds of transactions daily, most of them small. Speed and competitive rates aren’t nice-to-haves - they’re essential to protecting your margins.

Speed is everything

Your customers are grabbing essentials and want to pay in seconds. Fast contactless processing keeps the queue moving and customers coming back.

Rates for high volume

With hundreds of daily transactions, even a fraction of a percent difference in rates adds up over a month. We compare every provider to find the best deal for your volume.

Built to last

Your terminal runs all day, every day. We supply robust hardware that handles the volume without reliability issues.

What you get from uno

  • A terminal built for high-volume convenience retail
  • The most competitive rates for your transaction profile
  • Robust, reliable hardware
  • On-site setup and responsive support

Common questions from convenience store owners

With a high daily number of transactions but a low average basket value, which rate structure saves the most?

For a busy store doing hundreds of transactions each day its critical to do a full comparison of the true TOTAL cost - accounting for all 'per transaction' fees and additional monthly charges that often get missed when only focusing on the lowest possible transaction rate.

We do 300+ card transactions a day, so which card machine would be best for us?

The PAX models are built for sustained high-volume use, so a busy processing 300–400 transactions daily won't see any slowdown, as they're designed with this kind of constant use in mind.

Are we allowed to refuse transactions below our 'minimum spend for cards'?

Minimum spend policies aren't illegal, but card schemes like Visa and Mastercard prohibit them in their merchant agreements - meaning you could risk losing your card acceptance if a provider enforces the rules. But the better question is why you'd need a 'minimum spend' policy when there are solutions that charge a tiny percentage of the sale. A refused card doesn't just lose that sale - research consistently shows that customer won't come back.

We're open 6am to 11pm. What time do we do our 'End-Of-Day'?

None of the solutions that uno recommends require you to do an 'End-Of-Day', as modern machines run an overnight batch settlement - which happens automatically without any user involvement. But of course you can do your own End-Of-Day report on each machine, anytime you wish - in addition to having instant access to all of your transactional data at any time, from anywhere.

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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