Square Reader $39 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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Times are getting tough, upward pressure on interest rates, inflation depleting the power of your dollar, Maccas no longer offering decent deals…

No better time make some extra money and invest in your side-hustle with a Square Reader. Accept payments electronically and avoid handling manky notes and coins, or buyers who say they “only have a $20 note” for your $25 item. Yeah nah pay up mate, tap right here.

Usually selling for $59, but now discounted $20 to $39

$39 with Amazon with free delivery otherwise $38 at Officeworks in-store.

• JBHIFi ($10 less with your bday voucher)(jbhifi.com.au)
• Officeworks - cheapest instore price $38(officeworks.com.au)
• Square up(squareup.com)

Transaction cost is 1.9% so probably suits low volume sellers eg weekend markets or garage sales that don’t want to spend up for the reader.

Description:

• Accept EMV chip cards, contactless NFC cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay from anywhere.
• Pay just 1.9% for every tap or insert. No long-term contracts, no monthly fees.
• Connect wirelessly to your phone or tablet with Bluetooth LE to take payments on the go or at your counter.
• Use with the Square Point of Sale app to manage items, inventory, reporting and more—all in one free app.

More info(squareup.com)

Price History at CamelCamelCamel.

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                      claud0902 on 13/02/2023 - 18:16

                      @Trance N Dance: Indeed, and we already have - look at wehat, alipay, samsung pay, andriod pay, apple pay etc.

                      And look at the device in OP. They are just lucky that their business is in a very low developed country of IOT connection and wireless payment industry. However their business will not be sustainable considering the competition is just at the corner. Die or adapter to the world.

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                        Trance N Dance on 13/02/2023 - 18:34

                        @claud0902: wechatpay and alipay charges the seller just like visa and mastercard.
                        As for samsung pay, android pay, apple pay. They don't process the transaction they offer an alternative way to carry your payment information. The service for which you paid for when you paid for your phone. The innovated and provided you a convenience, one that you pay for when you purchase your device. There's still payment.

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                          claud0902 on 13/02/2023 - 19:17

                          @Trance N Dance: Sometimes it is not important to customers on how things work, but the result.

                          Please do not try to be nerd, wrong target group of conversation. The outcome matters - free to customer.

                          As a customer, I want if free, are you a customer? Who do you speak for, which side are you at, in this discussion?

                          You sounds like having interest to service providers, fine. But if a service provider try to communicate with customer in this way, only try to explain how things work but not care what customer want, they are going to fail.

                          Not really to you, but to so many aussie workers who really have no idea what they should do in their work in the sale/service industry.

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                            Nom on 13/02/2023 - 19:47

                            @claud0902: Not sure why you are still persisting here.

                            What is your point ? What are you trying to say ?

                            You started off by complaining about fees charged by payment providers. But of course they should charge fees - they're a business providing a service.

                            Then you got to this :

                            The outcome matters - free to customer.

                            Which is exactly how credit cards work. The payment providers take their cut from the merchant, not from the customers. They are in fact "free to customer".

                            There's no difference between a fee-charging payment provider, a fee-charging crypto network, or a fee-charging Alipay/WeChat.

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                              claud0902 on 13/02/2023 - 21:26

                              @Nom: The problem is no one in this discussion says the credit cards system has a problem to customers. So what is your point to reply?

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                                Nom on 14/02/2023 - 22:50

                                @claud0902:

                                The problem is no one in this discussion says the credit cards system has a problem to customers.

                                You did. That's what this whole discussion is about. Here is what you said :

                                Use Alipay or Wechat pay for free transaction and do not get ripped off by these evil service providers.

                                You are trying to say that using Alipay or Wechat is better than using Square to accept payments - but they're all the same, none are more "evil" than any other, which is what we have been trying to tell you the whole time.

                                I said they are better than the op service because they are free. Same goes to visa and mastercard.

                                This Square reader is for visa and mastercard.

                                It is also free for the customer to use.

                                The idea is to make no bill to customers in the transaction.

                                This Square reader does make no bill to customers in the transaction.

                                Do you understand now ? I don't know how to explain it any more simply !!!!!

                                I pay for my morning coffee using a Square reader every day. Do you know how many fees it charges me ? The answer is zero. Zero fees for the customer.

                                This whole thread is entirely bonkers.

                                If one player can do it, competitors need to learn the way to do the same.

                                They all already do it the same !!!!!

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                                  claud0902 on 15/02/2023 - 03:14

                                  @Nom: Ok. I got it. Thanks

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                            Trance N Dance on 13/02/2023 - 20:17

                            @claud0902: And you sound like you have no idea what you're talking about.
                            You've made hypocritical comments (that alipay and wechatpay are different and better, but they essentially do the same thing as visa and mastercard on a smaller scale). Yes, alipay and wechatpay charge less but they still charge, whereas you're arguing for someone to create a service and not get paid for it.
                            You've confused payment facilitators and digital wallets (visa/mastercard v apple pay/samsung pay/google pay) and what each of them do.

                            I'm not on any side, I'm just pointing out your inaccuracies and hypocrisy.

                            You're complaining about fees that a company providing a service is charging. Are you saying someone should do work without being paid for it? Because that's what it sounds like; and that's what you (and I assume you meant you when you say customer here) want. So when you're so off base and don't understand how things work you should really be given information to actually know what you want.

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                              claud0902 on 13/02/2023 - 21:25

                              @Trance N Dance: No, I said they are better than the op service because they are free. Same goes to visa and mastercard.

                              The idea is to make no bill to customers in the transaction. Service providers need to work their own way to get paid in the process. As a customer, there is nothing better than get stuff for free. That is the whole point I am trying to make.

                              If one player can do it, competitors need to learn the way to do the same. The information you are trying to provide to any customers is irrelavant to their actual need. It is a simple question, as a service provider, can you do it for free or not.

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                                Trance N Dance on 13/02/2023 - 22:08

                                @claud0902: There are plenty of businesses that accept visa and mastercard that don't pass the surcharge directly onto the customer. They pass it on indirectly by integrating it into their displayed pricing. Either way the customer will pay something for the business to make a profit margin.

                                Which other payment facility company is fee free? It's already been pointed out that wechatpay, alipay and crypto all have fees as well. Apple pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay don't process payments so you can't compare to them either.
                                You're also oblivious as to how merchant fees work. The fees are charged to the business, it's up to them whether to pass it onto their customers directly or not. There is not one single service provider that is fee free in this field.

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                                  claud0902 on 14/02/2023 - 12:30

                                  @Trance N Dance: Well, I am not saying the seller cannot pass the bill to the customer. I am saying directly charging transaction fee to customer is not welcome.

                                  The two things are different. If the seller choose to add the surcharge into their selling price, fine, the pricing stragegy of their service/products will be judged by the market and competition. It is seller's bussiness to stay competitive or they will be out of the game if they fail to do so. Therefore, business will need to be effective on their cost structure, be innovative to their product quality to increase their margin, rather than simply add the surcharge into their price if they do not have unique advantage on their products/service.

                                  I have been saying this for days, you on the other hand kept on proving your point that every single service provider will charge fee. But as a customer, who cares?

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                                    Trance N Dance on 15/02/2023 - 10:53

                                    @claud0902: The transaction fee isn't charged directly to the customer, it's charged to the seller who chooses to pass the fee in part or whole onto the customer at their discretion. You've been going on about how visa and mastercard is bad because they charge a fee, and you fail to see that all payment facilitators charge a fee. How the fee is paid is like you said the seller's issue, the point is you said visa and mastercard are evil because they charge a fee and we should use wechatpay and/or alipay. You conveniently ignored the fact that they too charge a fee.

                                    There's two ways to handle the extra cost of accepting electronic payments. Either bake the fee into the pricing and everyone pays more regardless of which method they choose to pay with and that method's individual fees; or pass the fee on as appropriate and according to the method of payment chosen. Either way the customer will end up covering the cost of providing goods/service by the seller which includes merchant fees.

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  thimothiz on 08/02/2023 - 18:34

  +3

  or you can get it free delivered directlly from Square if you do not have a prime membership

  https://squareup.com/shop/hardware/au/en/products/chip-credi…

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  dein_gesicht on 08/02/2023 - 19:35

  +1

  Manufactured spending here we go!

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    Aureus on 08/02/2023 - 19:52

    +2

    Banned from Square speed run.

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  payless69 on 08/02/2023 - 19:57

  Glad competition kicks in. Good for every customer.

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  Alley Cat on 08/02/2023 - 21:19

  +2

  Friendly reminder: Square has a referral system that gives either $20 off terminal purchase or free processing for $1,000 (which is about $20). Maybe you want to add to the post, seeing it might be stackable with the terminal purchase.

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  leiiv on 09/02/2023 - 00:47

  Can you choose your own MCC and keep changing it every now and then?
  If yes, It can potentially be used to cash out from discounted digital gift card that are VISA/MC but restricted to certain MCC, eg special, restaurant

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    Benjkmv on 09/02/2023 - 10:07

    This device accepts contactless or Insert Card/PIN payment methods only. It doesn't offer you Swipe option and hence useless for gift cards

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      leiiv on 09/02/2023 - 10:13

      Some gift cards can be put in GPay or Apple Pay.

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    Cheemeister on 09/02/2023 - 10:29

    Sorry, what's MCC, besides Melbourne Cricket Club, Multi Color Corporation and Macquarie Community College?

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      Trance N Dance on 09/02/2023 - 11:42

      Merchant category code. Basically it's a code that identifies what type of business the terminal is being used for. Usually it's assigned to you or chosen at the time of registering for a terminal.

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      NigelTufnel on 09/02/2023 - 11:44

      Merchant category code(en.wikipedia.org)

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  figarow on 09/02/2023 - 12:53

  +1

  Imagine being at randos house and waving your card. Not going to happen.

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  Employeerigob @ Square on 11/02/2023 - 20:46

  @gamemaster in case some folks are interested, Square Reader is still in stock on the Square Shop. Price is $39 with free shipping until 19 Feb.
  https://squareup.com/shop/hardware/au/en/products/chip-credi…

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  Dyl on 13/02/2023 - 09:10

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  Isn't clear they don't allow non-commercial use. They asked for full business details including recent invoices etc before approval to cashout.

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