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Portable card machine: the rates UK providers actually print A portable card machine is a complete terminal that leaves the counter. The transaction rate is usually the same as the provider's other in-person rate; the device and its connection are what differ.
Printed rates for a Portable card machine 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 portable card machine A wifi-only terminal stops at the edge of the network; if you take payment outdoors, buy the mobile version.
Where a terminal uses a mobile network, somebody pays for the SIM, printed or folded into the rate.
The same physical terminal is sold by several providers at different prices: you are buying the acquiring relationship, not the plastic.
Cite or embed this figure The printed in-person transaction rate in Portable card machine was 1.7% in read 2026-09-10, across 7 providers recorded in Card Machine Pricing UK Card Machine Price Index.
Cite as: "Card Machine Pricing UK Card Machine Price Index: Portable card machine", updated 2026-09-10, https://cardmachinepricing.co.uk/types/portable-card-machine/.
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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.