Processing payments with POS Terminal
You can process secure payments with the POS Terminal. Payments on POS Terminal are still processed through Shopify Payments, which means rates, payouts, and reporting all remain the same as other Shopify card readers.
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Accepted payment methods with POS Terminal
POS Terminal accepts the following major credit cards:
- Visa and Visa Debit
- Mastercard and Debit Mastercard
- American Express
- Discover (only for locations in United States, Canada, and United Kingdom)
- Diners Club (only for locations in United States, Canada, and United Kingdom)
- JCB (only for locations in United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand)
- Union Pay (only for locations in United States and Canada)
- eftpos (Australia only)
- Interac (Canada only)
Most national debit cards such as Interac, girocard, or eftpos cards that are co-badged with Visa or Mastercard can process payments outside the card issuer's country using Visa and Mastercard. Some co-badged debit cards that don't process payments through Mastercard or Visa might not work outside the card issuer's country.
On hardware that supports contactless payments, customers might also present any supported card brand that they've loaded on a digital wallet such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay.
POS Terminal payment security
POS Terminal adheres to industry standards for security in payment processing. All Shopify card readers are PCI compliant and follow EMV best practices, meaning cardholder data is secure and payments are encrypted.
Process payments with POS Terminal
POS Terminal accepts tap, chip, and swipe credit and debit card payments.
Steps:
- On your POS device, add items to the cart in the POS app and tap Checkout.
- POS Terminal’s customer-facing display prompts the customer to tap, swipe, or insert their card. If the customer wants to pay with another method, then select their preferred option in the POS app.
- If you have tips activated, then choose Credit/Debit for card payments for POS Terminal from the available payment methods to prompt for card payment.
- When Shopify POS displays a Payment approved message, the transaction is complete.