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Friday, May 4, 2012

How Free Credit Card Terminals Function

By Chloe Gib


A charge card terminal is a device or piece of equipment that can do transactions with a swipe or a bank card. Merchants use different types of them, but the basic functions and working principles are similar for most. In some free credit card terminals, the user swipes any of the cards in a slot on the terminal that electronically registers information about them. In others, the merchant keys in vital data about them.

The information is then carried over a communication network like internet or telephone lines. Current devices transmit data over cellular or satellite systems. Numerous processing companies give the devices to merchants under different conditions.

Some processing firms sell them, whilst others sometimes lease or rent theirs at a price. There are those who also make them available to their clients free of charge. Those who provide them at no cost usually keep the rights of ownership and can repossess them whenever they consider it necessary.

An investigation into how their programs work gave mixed results. Some of them are not costless as they claim to be, while others are genuinely without cost. The results of the investigation show how merchants believe these machines are without any cost yet there are some hidden charges with each transaction.

In these programs, all transactions have a consignment fee charged. The fee is so minimal that the merchant doesn't instantly become aware of it. The fee is comparable to buying a credit/debit card terminal when added cumulatively over a long period.

Other machines that are given freely have a higher transaction fee. The inflated fee per transaction is also so small to the tune of a few cents but it accumulates to a large sum depending on the number of transactions. The merchant may end up paying more in the transaction fees than if they had just bought the terminal.

We cannot ignore the processing companies that offer genuinely costless machines to their clients. These firms only give the devices to established companies who have a history of stability. With this they avoid the risk of losing the machines when they give them out to unstable companies that may close down any time.

In all these instances, the processing firms maintain complete ownership and mainly give them out in order to advertise their services. A significant limitation with free credit card terminals services is that some feature is disabled. Others only take credit cards and do not accept debit cards while some carry out local orders leaving out international transactions.




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