Card machine for your garden centre

Reliable card payments across your garden centre - tills, café, outdoor sales area, all covered with competitive rates.

Common challenges

  • Need terminals in multiple locations (till, café, outdoor)
  • Seasonal peaks mean high volume in spring and summer
  • Large premises with connectivity challenges
  • Mix of low-value (seeds) and high-value (furniture) transactions
  • Café and retail operating as separate tills

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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
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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
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Why garden centres choose uno

Garden centres are complex retail environments - a main till, a café, an outdoor sales area, maybe a seasonal pop-up section. You might need terminals in multiple locations, all working reliably.

Multiple terminals, one provider

We can set up multiple terminals across your site — main retail, café, outdoor - all on the same competitive rates and managed through one relationship.

Works across large premises

Garden centres are big. Portable terminals with 4G connectivity mean you can take payment anywhere on site without relying on patchy Wi-Fi reaching the far greenhouse.

Seasonal volume

Spring and summer bring peak footfall. Your terminals need to handle the rush reliably. We supply proven hardware that performs under pressure.

What you get from uno

  • Multiple terminals across your site if needed
  • Competitive rates compared across providers
  • 4G and Wi-Fi connectivity options
  • On-site installation and ongoing support

Common questions from garden centre owners

We sell plants outdoors and gifts indoors - do I need two terminals?

A portable terminal handles both. Staff carry it from the indoor till to the outdoor plant area as needed. If both areas are busy simultaneously (spring weekends), a second terminal on the same account covers both zones without a queue at one end while the other sits idle.

We have a café on-site - can the same account cover both the shop and the café?

Yes. Multiple terminals on one merchant account, all at the same rate. A terminal at the garden centre till and a terminal at the café counter — both settle to the same bank account with a single reconciliation.

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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