This community case study, describes a second-hand furniture shop and registered charity in East Anglia. They wanted to improve their customer service by taking debit and credit cards, but couldn’t decide how best to go about it.
A local care charity wanted to trial online services in their shop, but their bank wouldn’t provide them with a Chip & PINterminal unless they agreed to a three-year contract. The charges for the terminal (and the associated transaction costs) were very expensive.
This children’s charity case study looks at a multi-site national charity collecting donations via a GPRS Chip & PIN machine. With five regional locations and numerous regional and national donor events, they needed a system that would encompass all their requirements