Virtual Credit Card Terminals are a new phenomena that has been tweaked over and over again throughout the past decade but with the help of the iPhone it has finally been perfected.
There are tons of opportunities for the virtual credit card terminal market and the competition is always heating up. With multiple options that started with a big terminal that used to print out a receipt to Nextel's innovative phone adaptation to today's innovative iPhone applications that offer the transaction entirely digitally with confirmations that can be sent via email makes it intriguing about how we have evolved and where we are going.
Will finger print technology ever be the newest gadget that we use to barter or are we content with portable phone and terminals to conduct transactions?
For the iPhone applications all of them are virtually the same as each uses the safe and secure Authorize.Net service and the charges will range from $20-30.00 with additional fees based on the transaction as well as processing fees. Each application is easy to use and gives you the ability to refund any charge, void transactions, place holds on a card, and obviously process any charge by inputting the name, billing address, CC number, and security code.
The most efficient iPhone Credit Card or POS app is iMerchant Pro which is currently the only gadget that offers the ability to print and email receipts with audio feedback. Intuit also makes a very similar application available for the Blackberry.
So who makes use of these applications?
• People holding seminars that people pay for when they show up
• Flea Market Vendors
• Sales at a Garage Sale
• Contracted workers for special events such as: a Wedding Photographer, Disc Jockey, etc
About this Author
This was authored by Rich an avid technology guru who has written for Gawker media publications such as Gizmodo and Life Hacker.
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