- It happened to Glenn again –
- In late July, 2023, I was at an outdoor event put on by an organization that I know well (I won’t name names), the admission fee was $10, and it was starting in 15 minutes and there were about 1000 people inside and it seemed like at least 300 waiting to get in.
- I expected the normal setup of one or two square readers attached to phones.
- At least they take credit cards
- Usually one phone or reader is having problems
- Slow and Clunky — But it works.
- Instead I got a QR Code, where it asks you to enter in your credit card information and text, and charges $1.50 for the convenience fee.
- Not even legal in Massachusetts.
- PatronPay would have shipped them 5 or more terminals on a short term event deal
- They could have been configured with a 5% cash discount
- The organization would have made at least 2% on every credit card transaction, that would have easily paid for the terminals.
- And people would have moved through the lines at an average of 10-20 seconds per person at each terminal.
- The point is we make it easy for anyone putting on a special event to put in place a speedy credit card solution where a minimal 5% cash discount will pay for the device rental and shipping and make the organization money. – we can overnight up to1- 50 or more terminals preconfigured to handle your event