Payrexx turns the mobile phone into a Kartenlesegerät
With "Payrexx Tap to Pay", receiving payments has become even easier. The brand new SoftPOS application replaces expensive Kartenlesegerät and eliminates annoying fixed costs. Simply install it on your mobile phone and start collecting, whether with a card or TWINT. Quick, easy, secure – perfect for SMEs, clubs and non-profit organisations.
Sheila
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Take the local football club as an example: the club tournament is just around the corner, the standings table is set up and all the volunteer helpers are ready to go. A refreshments stand is to look after the well-being of the players and visitors, and the drinks, fryers and cakes are already organised. Now only a simple way to take payments is missing.
Instead of limiting itself to cash, registering separately with TWINT or even buying an expensive terminal, the club chooses the simple yet comprehensive solution – Payrexx. Or more precisely: Payrexx Tap to Pay.
What exactly is Payrexx Tap to Pay?
The Swiss payment provider from Thun has specialised in the needs of SMEs, clubs, start-ups and non-profit organisations and knows that it has to be straightforward, user-friendly and cost-effective. That is exactly where the newly developed product “Tap to Pay” comes in.
SoftPOS technology, short for “Software Point of Sale”, allows merchants to accept payments directly via their smartphone. With the Android application, anyone can easily take payments on site, directly via their own device and without lengthy registration processes or expensive technology. Mobile, flexible and modern.
How it works:
Register with Payrexx: the football club creates an account with Payrexx. Thanks to the new FREE subscription, there are no monthly costs, and the usually tedious verification process is simple and quick: as soon as the necessary data has been entered, the club's account is checked and activated on the same day.
Download the app: either the club organises a few till phones to be set up on site, or the helpers download the app individually to their Android device. Either way, Payrexx Tap to Pay can be used with just one account on as many devices as desired. The first device is free, and for each additional device the club pays 4 CHF per month.
Receive payments in no time: anyone with an NFC-enabled phone can now take payments. Simply enter the amount and have the tournament visitors hold their credit or debit card against the phone. And just like that, the amount has been transmitted. TWINT or mobile wallets such as Apple Pay or Samsung Pay can also be accepted.
All incoming transactions are clearly collected in the football club's Payrexx account, so that the cashier later has a clear overview of all amounts received. And when the tournament is over, the use cases for Payrexx do not stop: the club can also process membership fees, trial training sessions, crowdfunding or shirt sales directly via the various products of Payrexx.
Payrexx Tap to Pay is of course not only suitable for the example football club. The application has been developed so that a wide range of use cases are conceivable. Whether fitness centre, swimming pool, kiosk, food truck, hairdresser, florist, cleaners, tradesperson, dentist, taxi driver, street performer or music society: wherever the mobile phone has internet reception, Tap to Pay can be used to receive payments.
What does the new product aim to achieve?
For Payrexx, Tap to Pay is a milestone on the path from a purely e-commerce provider to an omnichannel provider. While the Thun-based company has so far mainly focused on online merchants, Tap to Pay is now the first product to specifically target brick-and-mortar retail. In this way, Payrexx is opening up a new target group – consisting of small merchants, associations, non-profit organisations or clubs, which Payrexx wants to support when receiving payments on site.
While international and publicly listed payment providers focus on large, high-turnover companies and usually offer the smaller ones only poor conditions, Payrexx stands up exactly for them. Having started out itself as a start-up in Thun, Payrexx knows the challenges of an SME very well. Accordingly, Payrexx's vision is: All people should be able to trade – regardless of their experience or financial means.
This attitude is ultimately also reflected in the costs. As these can be crucial for small merchants, they have been deliberately kept as low as possible with Payrexx Tap to Pay. Both the Payrexx account and the application can be obtained free of charge. With transaction costs of 1.65 % + 0.15 CHF, Payrexx can not only keep pace with the competition, but in some cases also undercut it.
For now, Payrexx Tap to Pay is only available for Android devices, as Apple only approved NFC technology for Swiss applications this year. Payrexx is working at full speed to bring Tap to Pay to market for iPhones and iPads as soon as possible as well.
