One key advantage to having an app may be that your fans would be a little less nervous watching you key in their Credit Card number, but maybe there’s a way. But that said, theoretically if you don’t have an iPhone or use someone other than, surely there’s a way to access some of the Web virtual terminals via our mobile device’s increasingly-powerful web browsers, right? I’m a fan of apps, so to me the app here looks a whole lot friendlier than a web page. The transaction fees aren’t that bad, and you get some hard-core fraud protection features, Apple Keychain support, and all the features – email receipts, QuickBooks accounting integration, and the like.Ĭool, but this immediately makes me wonder why we aren’t seeing more of this sort of thing. You’ll need to pay US$25 in fees monthly, though, so this is probably something you’d choose if you’re also interested in running on your website for CC sales. There’s no physical scanner, but for casual sales that’s probably okay.
#ONTOUR APP WINDOWS#
(In fact, it sounds as though Apple will indeed - unsurprisingly - replace those Windows Mobile-powered devices with iPhones, says AppleInsider.) Ironically, it puts to shame the terminals Apple employees themselves use at the Apple Store. Unlike ’s tangled website, though, this is a beautiful, polished app that works the way you want. The back end is powered by, one of the major vendors of online credit card processing. Right now, you also get a $50 gift certificate to iTunes, so you can catch up on LOST and buy the new Depeche Mode and feel like the whole thing is free. The app is US$49.99, pricey for an iPhone app but a whole lot less money – and a whole lot more convenient – than a big, clunky conventional terminal.
#ONTOUR APP TV#
The application in question is called Innerfence, and Apple gets it, too, as they’ve added it to a new TV ad.
IPhone App Adds Mobile Credit Card Processing to DIY Toolkit That’s why I’m absolutely with Hypebot’s Virgil Dickerson: running credit card numbers on an iPhone is a game changer. Buying a full-blown credit card terminal is expensive. Selling merch on the road – whether your band has CDs and shirts or you run your own enterprising business in geeky goods as our contributor Liz McLean Knight does – is a big challenge.
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