Take deposits, session payments, and merch sales - reliable card payments with rates that suit your studio.
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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.
The days of tattoo studios being cash-only are long gone. Clients expect to pay by card - especially for larger pieces where nobody wants to carry hundreds in cash. A card machine also makes taking deposits effortless.
Take a non-refundable deposit on card when a client books. No awkward cash handling, no chasing payments, no no-shows without consequence.
Tattoo sessions often run into the hundreds. We compare rates across providers to make sure you’re not overpaying on fees for larger transactions.
On-screen tipping prompts make it easy for clients to add a tip at payment - better for your artists, smoother for the client.
Yes. Process a deposit of whatever amount you set - £50, £100, however you structure your bookings. The terminal processes it as a standard card payment. When the customer returns for the session, you process the remaining balance. Over-the-phone deposits are also possible for bookings made by phone.
Yes. Whether it's a £25 walk-in ear piercing or a £400 booked sleeve session, the same terminal handles both. No separate equipment needed for different transaction types or values.
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.