{"id":3077,"date":"2013-10-04T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2013-10-04T19:53:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T18:53:39","slug":"right-here-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/10\/right-here-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Right Here, Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Long ago we used an old fashioned swipe machine<\/a> with the carbon receipt slips to take credit card payments. That was until we discovered that the fees we were paying to the bank to use it were way, way more than we were taking in payments ! So we packed it up, sent it back and instead took to manually taking credit card details on paper and running the cards when we returned to base – of course the risk with this is that the payment could be refused, in which case we would out of pocket as the customer already has the goods (although in fact this never happened apart from once, and we were able to contact the customer and arrange alternative payment – wargamers are a very honest bunch in general).<\/p>\n

However, no longer will we need to do this – for we have a new toy in Brigade Towers. It’s a little widget called a PayPal Here (no, we don’t know why either). It’s for reading both Chip and Pin and older swipe cards, which connects by Bluetooth to my smartphone and allows us to process credit card payments on the spot and send the customer a receipt by either e-mail or text message. Isn’t technology wonderful ! \"PayPalHere\"<\/p>\n

We’ll be using this at all forthcoming shows, with SELWG just round the corner and Crisis not far away (or which more news once SELWG is out of the way).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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