Professional card payments for clinic appointments and home visits - on-screen receipts, competitive rates on appointment values, and a portable option for domiciliary work.
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Compact, buy-outright card machine with Wi-Fi and 4G connectivity. No monthly fees, no contract - just a one-off hardware cost and a simple flat transaction rate. Ideal for very low volume merchants.
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.
Podiatry sits at the intersection of healthcare and small business — you’re running a clinical practice, but you’re also an independent operator who needs to get paid efficiently. Whether you work from a clinic, a shared health centre, or visit patients at home, card payment makes your practice more professional and your cash flow more predictable.
For a clinic-based practice, a compact terminal on the reception desk handles payment smoothly at the end of each appointment. Contactless, Chip & Pin, and printed receipts for patients who claim through private health insurance.
Many podiatrists do domiciliary rounds - visiting elderly or less mobile patients at home. The PAX A920 connects over 4G, fits in your bag, and lets you take payment at the patient’s door. No more posting invoices, no more chasing cheques.
If you see a modest number of patients per week, the Solo, bought outright with no monthly fees, is a practical entry point. You only pay the transaction rate when you take a payment — no fixed costs during quiet weeks.
Patients claiming podiatry through insurance or workplace health schemes often need a receipt. The terminals we recommend provide printed or digital receipts as standard.
With typical appointment charges of £35–£60, the transaction rate directly affects your take-home. We compare providers to find the rate that makes the most sense for your appointment values and weekly volume.
Yes. A portable terminal with 4G connectivity fits in your treatment bag. After each home visit, the patient taps their card or enters their PIN, payment processes in seconds, and they get a receipt. Far more professional than asking a 78-year-old to set up a bank transfer.
Yes. The terminals we supply print a customer receipt after every transaction. For patients claiming through private health insurance or workplace health schemes, the receipt shows the amount paid, the date, and your business name — everything they need for their claim.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.