Portable, no contract, and ready to take payments wherever your pop-up lands - from markets to festivals to short-term retail spaces.
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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 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.
Pop-up shops and event traders need card machines that work without fixed infrastructure, without long contracts, and without complicated setup. You need to be taking payments from day one.
Several of the solutions we offer have no long-term contract. You use them when you’re trading, and you’re not locked in when you’re not.
The PAX A920 connects over 4G, runs on battery, and has a built-in printer. No mains power, no broadband, no problem.
The Solo is yours to keep - no monthly fees, no contract. Pay a single rate per transaction and nothing else. Ideal if you’re testing a pop-up concept before committing to ongoing costs.
Yes. A portable terminal with 4G connectivity works anywhere with mobile signal - shopping centres, markets, event spaces, gallery pop-ups, pub gardens. You don't need to connect to each venue's Wi-Fi or arrange anything in advance.
We'd recommend a card machine under a 'no-use, no-fee contract that offers a Blended rate billing model.
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.