Several companies are offering a service that allows you to take credit cards and swipe them on your cell phone. This sounds like a perfect solution to a familiar problem. Between our two business, we attend many trade shows, home and garden shows, koi shows, etc. Often a customer wants to use a credit card and we would have to write the number down and run it through our land line CC machine when we got back to the shop. Too late if the card was no good. We applied to both Square and Intuit. We got accounts from both and decided to use intuit as it seemed difficult to reach anyone at Square. WOW, what a mistake!!

If you choose to use a service like this contact me for the horror story about using Intuit go-payment.