Card machine for your fish and chip shop

Fast contactless at the counter, competitive rates on high daily volumes, and a terminal built for the pace of a busy chippy.

Common challenges

  • Long queues at peak times need fast contactless
  • High transaction count means fees add up quickly
  • Low-to-medium average values make per-transaction costs matter
  • Terminal needs to handle the pace of a Friday night rush
  • Want something reliable and simple — no time for tech issues

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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 fish & chip shops choose uno

Chippies are queue-driven businesses - especially on a Friday evening. Your card machine needs to keep up with the pace and process contactless payments fast so the queue keeps moving.

Fast counter payments

The PAX A800 is rental-free for your first machine and processes contactless within 3 seconds. Wired for reliability, it won’t let you down when you’ve got a queue out the door.

Portable option

If you serve at a counter and a separate collection point, or run a delivery service, the PAX A920 gives you flexibility to take payment wherever it’s needed.

Low-cost alternative

The Solo, bought outright with no monthly fees, suits smaller chippies watching overheads. You pay a single rate per transaction and nothing else.

What you get from uno

  • A countertop terminal matched to high-volume counter service
  • Rates compared across providers for your transaction volume
  • Simple installation - we handle everything
  • UK-based support

Common questions from fish and chips owners

Friday night is our busiest by far - will one card machine cope?

One terminal handles the processing speed easily - contactless is under a second. The question is whether one terminal creates a bottleneck in your service flow. If you're running a queue at the counter and a separate collection point, a second terminal at collection can speed things up. We can set up both on the same account.

The kitchen environment is hot and greasy - will the terminal survive?

We position the terminal at the counter, not in the kitchen. The customer-facing side of a fast food shop is a standard retail environment. The terminals are touchscreen devices used in thousands of food businesses daily. Contactless means neither staff nor customers need to physically handle the device during most transactions.

We sometimes sell from a hatch - can the terminal work outside?

Yes. A portable terminal with 4G connectivity works at a serving hatch, at a seaside counter, or at a festival pitch. It doesn't need to be connected to your shop's Wi-Fi - the 4G handles the connection independently.

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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