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#1 PayAnywhere PAX E700 Smart POS+

The PayAnywhere Smart POS+ includes everything merchants need to manage, grow and optimize their business, all in a compact point of sale system that’s easy to set up and use. PayAnywhere Smart POS+’ key components include an intuitive touchscreen tablet, EMV/NFC-enabled payment device, and robust software featuring powerful inventory management, reporting and marketing tools.

  • A 12.5” touchscreen with Android software.
  • An EMV chip card, NFC contactless, and magstripe reader.
  • Front and back cameras for easy barcode scanning.
  • A 4.3" customer facing touchscreen.
  • Cash drawer connectivity.
  • Built-in thermal printer with 3.14”-wide receipt paper.
  • Multiple accessory ports.
  • 4G and wifi connectivity.
  • Comes preloaded with the Payanywhere app!
  • Free placement means no upfront cost. (Watch PAX E700 Video)

The Payanywhere Smart POS+ is the ideal solution for merchants who want full POS functionality in a sleek and compact design.

#1 E700 Smart POS+

The PayAnywhere Smart POS+ includes everything merchants need to manage, grow and optimize their business, all in a compact point of sale system that’s easy to set up and use. PayAnywhere Smart POS+’ key components include an intuitive touchscreen tablet, EMV/NFC-enabled payment device, and robust software featuring powerful inventory management, reporting and marketing tools.

Transform your countertop with the space-saving, tablet-based point of sale designed for your storefront.

  • A 12.5” touchscreen with Android software.
  • An EMV chip card, NFC contactless, and magstripe reader.
  • Front and back cameras for easy barcode scanning.
  • A 4.3" customer facing touchscreen.
  • Cash drawer connectivity.
  • Built-in thermal printer with 3.14”-wide receipt paper.
  • Multiple accessory ports.
  • 4G and wifi connectivity.
  • Comes preloaded with the Payanywhere app!
  • Free placement means no upfront cost.

The Payanywhere Smart POS+ is the ideal solution for merchants who want full POS functionality in a sleek and compact design.

Health and Beauty Salon Credit Card Processing Service and Terminals
Tuesday, April 11 2023

Give your business a makeover with health and beauty merchant services.

Independent health and beauty business owners, employees, and customers love our simplified payment processing services.

How do I choose a merchant services provider?

When it comes to finding the right merchant services partner for your independent health and beauty business, there are a number of things you’ll want to consider. After all, you’re not just looking for beauty industry payment processing, you want a partner you can count on — one who is committed to the success of your business. We offer so much more than just secure and affordable credit card processing, we give you access to easy-to-use analytics! That’s data you can use to make smarter, data-driven business decisions, while helping you more effectively manage your:

  • Customers.
  • Inventory.
  • Employees.
  • Chargebacks and more.

How? Through our proprietary payments app (compatible with both Apple and Android devices), payment processing equipment, and Payments Hub, our secure online merchant portal.

We know the beauty industry inside and out.

Whether you’re running a skincare or hair and beauty business, you’re a salon owner, a perfume merchant, or your business model is something else entirely, we’ve got the merchant services you need to accept credit cards and increase your sales. We’re a full-service partner for beauty industry payment processing — one with a proven track record of helping health and beauty merchants get the solutions they need to grow their businesses.

Flexible payment solutions for beauty businesses.

Choose from two unique themes.

Use Terminal theme to mirror a traditional credit card terminal. For item libraries, stock tracking, and open tabs, use Retail theme.

Email, text, or print receipts.

Provide customers with digital or printed receipts while maintaining a customer directory.

Accept offline transactions.

Accept payments even when you have a weak/limited or no internet connection.

Pick the pricing that suits your beauty business.

We’ll do more than just give you a great low rate. We can customize a pricing plan for your specific health and beauty business that allows you to make more money on every transaction.

Accept payments even when you have a weak/limited or no internet connection.

Beautiful customer, employee, and inventory management.

Simplify your back-office tasks both in the Payanywhere app and Payments Hub, our secure, online merchant portal.

Manage your inventory.

Track products from the moment they arrive until they leave in the hands of your customers.

  • Build a cloud-based product library.
  • Easily track your inventory.
  • Set low-stock alerts.

Manage your employees.

Our employee management tools allow you to do it all. 

  • Add and manage employees with unique roles and customizable levels of access.
  • Generate performance reports on individuals or groups of employees.
  • Additional employee management features are available through our partnership with Homebase.

Manage your customers.

Gain valuable insights into the behavior of your customers.

  • Who spends the most.
  • Who your most frequent visitors are.
  • Who is a first-time visitor.

You can even encourage customer feedback by asking your patrons to rate their experiences on your email and text receipts.

The start of something beautiful.

Whatever products and services you offer at your independent health and beauty business, SMG has a payment solution to fit your business perfectly. We’ll offer you payment devices that are as beautiful as they are functional — our proprietary Smart Solutions. Plus, you’ll get free access to our Virtual Terminal that you can use as a backup payment device. Since we own our own processor, we can even provide industry-best uptimes and one point of contact for customer care and technical support. 

Give your salon or spa a competitive edge.

Take advantage of Flat Rate Pricing and Cash Discount with our innovative Edge Program! It allows you to secure one low rate on every transaction while also allowing you to add a Cash Discount for non-card users.

PA PAX E700 Smart POS+

Transform your countertop with the space-saving, tablet-based point of sale designed for your storefront.

  • A 12.5” touchscreen with Android software.
  • An EMV chip card, NFC contactless, and magstripe reader.
  • Front and back cameras for easy barcode scanning.
  • A 4.3" customer facing touchscreen.
  • Cash drawer connectivity.
  • Built-in thermal printer with 3.14”-wide receipt paper.
  • 4G and wifi connectivity.
  • Free placement means no upfront cost.

The Payanywhere Smart POS+ is the ideal solution for merchants who want full POS functionality in a sleek and compact design.

Do you know how to read your merchant statement? I mean really read it and understand every charge. Most merchants can’t so don’t feel bad if you can’t either. Worse yet, do you let the bill come and go, paying it without giving it a second glance?

Here’s the problem. There’s a chance you’re paying hidden merchant processing fees or fees you didn’t agree to or know they existed. You could have a higher bottom line and not even know it. While some fees may be easily explained, some are unnecessary and until you identify them, they’ll keep eating at your profits.

What fees should you watch for? Check out our list below.

1. Assessment Fees

All merchant service providers charge assessment fees, but some are more transparent about it than others. The average assessment fee costs between 0.10% and 0.15%. If your credit card processor isn’t transparent, you’ll see the fee lumped into another fee or just listed as a total fee rather than a percentage. How do you know if you’re paying higher fees? Here’s a simple calculation: Take the total amount the provider charged you for a specific network (Visa or MasterCard for example) and divide it by the total sales for that card network. If it’s higher than 0.15% (that’s on the higher side), you’re paying too much. Even if you pay a lower amount, notice if the percentage increases from one month to the next. You may be paying more than necessary.

2. Interchange Fees

While not necessarily a ‘hidden’ fee since every merchant knows they pay it, not all merchant service providers are transparent about the costs. Many hide the fee amongst all the other fees without explanation. Here’s the problem. Providers charge many interchange fees based on the type of card (debit, reward credit card, platinum credit card, etc.) If you don’t have a detailed breakdown, you don’t know what you pay. That sounds like a hidden fee, right? What if your provider adds a markup? How much is it? You have the right to know. Ask your merchant service provider, and then shop around. Compare your options to determine if what you pay is fair or if you’re overpaying the interchange fees.

3. Surcharges

How many times have you fallen for a teaser rate only to find out later that you pay more than advertised? You’ve fallen for surcharges – it happens often. Whether the provider only advertised the lowest credit card processing rates for specific cards and didn’t reveal the higher rates or they didn’t explain non-qualifying transactions, you may pay higher rates than you thought. Would you like to figure out if you’re paying surcharges? It’s simple. Total up the fees you paid and divide it by the total amount charged that month. This is your effective rate, or what it costs you to process credit cards. If it’s far off from what you were told, you may want to shop around or talk to the merchant service provider.

4. Daily Discounts

The ideal merchant service provider charges you the credit card processing fees monthly, on the same day every month. This makes tracking expenses, surcharges, and increasing effective rates easy. You know when to check your statement, and how. You know how much to expect and will notice if something is different. Some merchant service providers, however, do daily discounting, which means they take your fees daily. It’s much harder for merchants to track the fees when they occur daily. How do you determine your effective rate or assessment fees? Ask for monthly discounting and make sure the merchant services provider doesn’t charge you an extra fee for it. Most include it in their fee, but make sure before you sign up.

5. Increasing Rates

Even when you sign a contract, your rates may increase. Read your contract’s fine print. Does it include a provision for increasing rates? What method does the service provider use to let you know? Most put a small message on your monthly statement. If you don’t see it, and don’t object within 30 days, the new rate goes into effect. If you aren’t calculating your fees, you may not even realize it.

6. Bundling Fees

Many merchant service providers bundle your services and offer various tiered programs. They claim that you get more services with the higher tiers. You may get an extra service or two, but is it worth the cost of the higher-paid plan? Typically, it’s not. Before you sign up for a higher plan, compare everything at face value. You’ll likely see that the more expensive plans aren’t worth it.

It seems costly to accept credit cards, especially with the hidden fees some charge, but there’s one way around it. Cash discounting helps merchants save money on credit card processing by passing the fee to process the card along to customers. It’s not that credit card payers pay more for a product – everyone pays the same prices, but you can offer cash buyers a discount of 3 – 4% since you avoid the credit card fees. This way your prices cover the cost of credit card processing and it encourages more customers to pay cash.

Credit card processing fees can quickly eat at your profits if you aren’t careful. Take the time to read the fine print and know the full cost of processing cards before choosing a merchant service provider. Look not only at the services they offer, but the fees too. Look at how they charge them, what’s included, and when you may be subjected to surcharges or other unexpected fees that take away from your profits.

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