Credit Card Imprinter

A card imprinter (click-clack) used to be used routinely to make a credit card purchase in a store. Also known as a “Knuckle buster '. Now, if the merchant's EFTPOS network isn't available, it's cash or nothing because the darling moppets behind the counter don't know how to use the sales slips. Some poor Gen-Y retail slaves haven't ever seen one before.

However they're still used quite often in taxi cabs or anywhere that doesn't have a 24/7 connection to internet or active phone line, like small offices or rural areas. They are also used, quite extensively, in Craft Shows and other Street Side and transient events.

Working at Italian restaurant – very recently – we'd occasionally lose our Point Of Sale (POS) touch screens to an overload of activity and their credit card swipes were our means of collecting credit card payments. Our options were to either force our customers to pay by other means, which we'd strongly urge, on account of choice two, which was to pull out this bright yellow box that contained the ol' “click clack” and some payment carbon paper. Imagine on a busy night, out of nowhere, you realize that you have to itemize every thing every table has ordered, add it all up, and finally add in the sales tax. The sales tax rate always threw us off, who knows that kind of stuff? If you've ever worked in a restaurant you'd empathize, it was a nightmare.

If you don't have a manual credit card imprinter kicking around it can become even more of a nightmare. To find a low cost card-swiper go here: http://www.CreditCardImprinter.biz