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Look great. $399 isn't bad considering it even has a roll printer built-in to it.

The only limitation seems to be omission of cash transaction data entry.
Not omitted. You can even plug a cash drawer into this thing! You configure the payment screen how you want.
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Seriously!

I just got back from a few weeks in Europe. Practically every restaurant we went to had wireless terminals they brought to your table to pay and Apple Pay worked with all of them. It was so nice. They were also about half the size of this Square unit, which is likely only this large to accommodate that large color screen. The ones in Europe were older with small black and white/green and white screens. I do wonder if this screen is overkill and they would have been better off making the screen, and therefore the whole unit, smaller and easier to carry around.
I love how everyone looks to Europe as the holy grail, not realizing a US company makes the fancy European terminals, Verifone. (Just like a US company made the Oyster card, etc). So credit is where it’s due. We have the tech, we made the tech. For some reason our restaurants don’t want to use the tech.
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I don’t understand why all the POS manufacturers in the US insist on horizontal chip card slots when it is immeasurably easier to insert chip cards vertically. Of course I also don’t understand why chip readers take 10x longer in the US either.
Again, the US manufactuer is the same manufactuer as the European ones. It’s the same card readers. The ones that you insert on the top are old Ingenico units getting phased out for the US style ones. The US ones are the newest ones (of course considering we are the newest EMV market)
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I feel like a broken record continually mentioning my recent trip to Europe but most of the readers I encountered had horizontal slots too.

Of course most (all?) European credit cards have contactless chips built in to them which, basically, work on the same technology as ApplePay/GooglePay/etc. so the slot is unnecessary.
Still very much necessary. The European cards are limited to €25/£25/$25. In Australia/Canada I believe the limit is $100. And in the US, there is no limit. If you go over the limits it wants a chip dip. Apple Pay is an exception if The store properly setup CDCVM (Square does in the U.K.)
 
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Pretty sleek and with a nice price. Props to them.
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I don’t understand why all the POS manufacturers in the US insist on horizontal chip card slots when it is immeasurably easier to insert chip cards vertically. Of course I also don’t understand why chip readers take 10x longer in the US either.
I live in the US and don't know what you're referring to with the vertical slots. Like having it so you insert the card downwards? How is that better?

But yeah, they are slow for some reason. Only fast chip reader I've experienced was in Costco (ultra efficient bulk pricing warehouse-store here). Then again, that's the only place it really matters, lol. Really it's a difference of about 10 seconds so nothing important, just a little frustrating.
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Still very much necessary. The European cards are limited to €25/£25/$25. In Australia/Canada I believe the limit is $100. And in the US, there is no limit. If you go over the limits it wants a chip dip. Apple Pay is an exception if The store properly setup CDCVM (Square does in the U.K.)
Wait what? I've definitely paid bills larger than 25 Euros on a credit card.
Edit: I assume you're talking about contactless payment. Which didn't exist when I was in Europe. nvm
 
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Pretty sleek and with a nice price. Props to them.
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I live in the US and don't know what you're referring to with the vertical slots. Like having it so you insert the card downwards? How is that better?

But yeah, they are slow for some reason. Only fast chip reader I've experienced was in Costco (ultra efficient bulk pricing warehouse-store here). Then again, that's the only place it really matters, lol. Really it's a difference of about 10 seconds so nothing important, just a little frustrating.
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Wait what? I've definitely paid bills larger than 25 Euros on a credit card.
Edit: I assume you're talking about contactless payment. Which didn't exist when I was in Europe. nvm
I love how you had to explain what Costco is to a European when there are plenty of Costco’s worldwide including Europe...membership works all over too, no need to get a “local” membership. Not being rude just found it funny lol
 
Not omitted. You can even plug a cash drawer into this thing! You configure the payment screen how you want.
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I love how everyone looks to Europe as the holy grail, not realizing a US company makes the fancy European terminals, Verifone. (Just like a US company made the Oyster card, etc). So credit is where it’s due. We have the tech, we made the tech. For some reason our restaurants don’t want to use the tech.
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Again, the US manufactuer is the same manufactuer as the European ones. It’s the same card readers. The ones that you insert on the top are old Ingenico units getting phased out for the US style ones. The US ones are the newest ones (of course considering we are the newest EMV market)
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Still very much necessary. The European cards are limited to €25/£25/$25. In Australia/Canada I believe the limit is $100. And in the US, there is no limit. If you go over the limits it wants a chip dip. Apple Pay is an exception if The store properly setup CDCVM (Square does in the U.K.)

Absolutely. I’m well aware most of the terminals are actually made by US companies. We’re just so slow moving in adopting payment technology here for whatever reason which is frustrating. The credit card was invented here in the US and then we pretty much just forwent any future progress that was made after that.

You’re right about the contactless limit, but that limit usually only means after the limit you have to enter your PIN, another thing credit card companies here refuse to adopt for whatever stupid reason. Not the mention the lack of widely deploy contactless cards means less incentive for deploying payment terminals that support it, which in turn means less places that Apple Pay works. In Europe because contactless payments are the norm, the terminals all work with it so I was able to use Apple Pay 95% of the places we want that weren’t cash only.
 
Still very much necessary. The European cards are limited to €25/£25/$25. In Australia/Canada I believe the limit is $100. And in the US, there is no limit. If you go over the limits it wants a chip dip. Apple Pay is an exception if The store properly setup CDCVM (Square does in the U.K.)

That’s decided by the bank. My card has a roughly 50 euro limit for contactless before it asks me to punch in the pin. Not even inserting chip. And Apple Pay has no limit, with the same card, on the same terminals.
 
I love how you had to explain what Costco is to a European when there are plenty of Costco’s worldwide including Europe...membership works all over too, no need to get a “local” membership. Not being rude just found it funny lol
I did Google "Costco Europe" and didn't get anything relevant in the first few results, so I was guessing they don't have it. Or maybe it's not popular there. Somehow I never saw one in France or Italy. But it's impressive that the membership works worldwide.
 
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