Card machine for your farm shop

Indoor counter, outdoor stalls, seasonal events - we find the card machine setup that covers every part of your farm shop operation.

Common challenges

  • Poor Wi-Fi or mobile signal at a rural location
  • Need payments inside the shop and at outdoor stalls
  • Seasonal peaks mean you need reliability when it matters most
  • Don't want long contracts for a business with seasonal variation
  • Customers increasingly expect card and contactless

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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 farm shops choose uno

Farm shops often combine an indoor retail space with outdoor stalls, seasonal events, and sometimes rural locations where connectivity isn’t guaranteed. Your payment setup needs to handle all of that.

Indoor counter

The PAX A800 connects over Wi-Fi or mobile data for reliable counter payments inside the shop - and if your broadband dips, it falls back to 4G automatically.

Outdoor and events

A PAX A920 with 4G connectivity handles outdoor stalls, farmers’ markets, and seasonal events. Battery-powered and portable, it goes wherever you’re selling.

Rural connectivity

If your farm shop is in a location with limited broadband, a wired countertop terminal inside combined with a 4G portable for outside gives you full coverage without relying on a single connection method. It’s the kind of setup that suits the farm shops we’ve worked with across Somerset, where Wi-Fi can’t be assumed and a back-lane location means the kit has to earn its keep.

What you get from uno

  • Terminal setup that covers indoor, outdoor, and events
  • Solutions for rural connectivity challenges
  • Rates compared across multiple providers
  • On-site installation and ongoing support

Common questions from farm shop owners

We sell everything from a £1.50 jar of jam to a £40 hamper - which rate structure works?

A blended percentage rate with no per-transaction fee works well for farm shops with a wide spread of basket sizes. You pay the same percentage whether it's a jar of chutney or a Christmas hamper. We'll model the total monthly cost against your typical sales mix to find the most competitive deal.

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!

Our trade is much busier in summer and over Christmas - do I still pay fees in the quiet months?

It depends on the provider. With some providers, there's no monthly fee — you only pay the processing rate when you transact. In a quiet January, your card machine costs you nothing. With others, there may be a small monthly fee regardless of volume. We'll find the option that matches your seasonal trading pattern.

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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