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Mobile card reader: the rates UK providers actually print A mobile card reader is the cheapest way into card payments in the UK, and the corner of this market where the price is genuinely published. Every provider below prints its own in-person rate; the figure is for a UK consumer card at the counter.
Printed rates for a Mobile card reader A provider is listed for this type only where its own live product page for it answered on the day of the read; the rate beside it is the one it prints, not one this index computed.
Buying a mobile card reader The advertised device price is often a new-customer offer for one unit; the second reader is usually priced separately on the same page.
A lower rate behind a monthly fee only wins above a turnover crossover the provider itself will usually state.
Non-UK cards, keyed-in payments and payment links are priced separately by most providers on the same page.
Cite or embed this figure The printed in-person transaction rate in Mobile card reader was 1.7% in read 2026-09-10, across 9 providers recorded in Card Machine Pricing UK Card Machine Price Index.
Cite as: "Card Machine Pricing UK Card Machine Price Index: Mobile card reader", updated 2026-09-10, https://cardmachinepricing.co.uk/types/mobile-card-reader/.
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Other machine types Source: GB card-machine pricing verified against each provider's own published pages on 2026-09-10 by infra/ingest/hubs/cardmachinepricing.co.uk/ingest_vendors.py: every quoted figure re-fetched and matched verbatim (hash-pinned). 11 of 32 providers print an in-person rate; 10 (paymentsense, teya, stripe, adyen, takepayments, lloyds-cardnet, utp, nexi, global-payments, handepay) print none and are listed with that fact.
All 44 source pages; each is the provider's own published page, quoted verbatim with retrieval date sumup.com SumUp UK pricing (Pay-as-you-go plan)sumup.com SumUp UK pricing (Pay-as-you-go plan)zettle.com Zettle by PayPal UK pricing page (card transactions)zettle.com Zettle by PayPal UK pricing (card reader, new business users only, excluding VAT)squareup.com Square UK pricing page (in-person processing fees)paymentsense.com Paymentsense UK pricingshopify.com Shopify POS UK pricing (in-person rate; the page prices in EUROS on a /uk/ path)shopify.com Shopify POS UK pricing (Basic tier, printed in euros on a /uk/ path)barclaycard.co.uk Barclaycard Payments card machines pageworldpay.com Worldpay UK pricingmypos.com myPOS UK prices and fees (card-present, under £10,000 monthly card turnover)mypos.com myPOS UK prices and fees (card-present, under £10,000 monthly card turnover)mypos.com myPOS portable card machines (myPOS Go 2, excluding VAT)teya.com Teya published fee scheduleteya.com Teya pricing store (the condition that turns the free plan into a paid one)tide.co Tide Tap to Pay pricing table (Pay As You Go column: no monthly fee, 1.5% + 11p)tide.co Tide Tap to Pay pricing table (Pay As You Go column: no monthly fee, 1.5% + 11p)tide.co Tide card reader range (Tide Nano, excluding VAT)viva.com Viva.com UK pricing (UK consumer cards, card present)lopay.com Lopay UK pricing, full fee breakdown (Essential account, UK consumer Visa and Mastercard)elavon.co.uk Elavon Start Simple plan (Visa and Mastercard)elavon.co.uk Elavon Start Simple plan (Visa and Mastercard)elavon.co.uk Elavon Start Simple plan (one-off device cost)stripe.com Stripe UK pricingnatwest.com Tyl by NatWest pricing (annual card turnover under £50K, personal cards UK and Europe)adyen.com Adyen UK pricingtakepayments.com takepayments card machineslloydsbank.com Lloyds Cardnet our priceslloydsbank.com Lloyds Cardnet our prices (minimum monthly charge)utpgroupltd.co.uk UTP Groupnexigroup.com Nexi in-store payments (UK and EU)dojo.tech Dojo pricing and feesrevolut.com Revolut Business accept-payments pricing (in-person, 'starting from')globalpayments.com Global Payments UK card machineshandepay.co.uk Handepay: how much does a card payment machine costeposnow.com Epos Now software, pay upfront (the condition attached to the headline discount)eposnow.com Epos Now software, pay upfront (licence bought outright, including VAT)lightspeedhq.com Lightspeed Restaurant UK pricing (Basic tier, priced in euros on a /uk/ path)storekit.com storekit pricing (Storekit+ tier; the tier below it is £0)loyverse.com Loyverse pricing (the core POS is free; every add-on is priced in euros)airpointofsale.com AirPOS pricingcybertill.com Cybertilleposdirect.co.uk EPOS Direct POS system pricing (indicative band for a sole trader or market stall)touchbistro.com TouchBistro pricing (priced in US dollars on the page a UK restaurant is sent to) Methodology: Every rendered figure is a rate or a price the provider prints on its OWN page, re-fetched and matched verbatim (the quote and its retrieval date travel with the cell), then hash-pinned. A provider that prints no rate is listed WITH that fact and the reason its page gives none - never with an estimate, and never with a figure lifted from a worked example. Rates are printed on different bases and are shown as printed; no blended effective rate is computed, because a derived number rendered as though a provider published it is the thing this index exists to replace.