Card payments for your cake shed
Stick a QR code in your shed and take card, Apple Pay and Google Pay in seconds. No card reader. No wifi. No monthly contract. The money lands in your bank account.
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Nine out of ten payments in Britain aren't cash
Your cake shed is charming, well-stocked and open all hours. And it only accepts the one thing almost nobody has in their pocket.
Cash made up just 9% of all UK payments in 2024 — down from 23% in 2019 and 48% a decade ago. Around 17 million UK adults now use cash once a month or less. Among 16–24 year olds, four in ten rarely touch it at all.
So here's what actually happens at your shed:
Someone pulls over. They pick up a brownie. They pat their pockets. Nothing. They rummage in the car door for coins. Nothing. They put the brownie back and drive off.
Most cake shed owners never find out how many customers walked away. There's no record of the sale that didn't happen.
Three steps, about ten minutes
Set up your honesty box in minutes. No apps to learn, no forms to fill. Just a QR code and your Stripe account.
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Tell us what you sell and where the money goes. Takes a few minutes on your phone.
Print your QR code and stick it up — or order one of our handcrafted slate plaques for something that lasts.
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Customers scan the code, pay by card, and the money goes straight to your Stripe account. You can see every transaction in real time.
Built for a shed at the end of a driveway, park, village green...
Nothing to steal there's no cash tin to prise off the wall and no card terminal to walk off with. If someone smashes the plaque, we'll send you a new one. Your takings were never in the shed to begin with.
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The customer's phone does all the work. Your shed just needs a printed square of plastic on the wall.
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Sunday evening, half seven, someone's driving back from the coast and spots your sign. You're in the bath. They still pay.
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Which cakes go first. What day is busiest. Whether the flapjack is worth the effort. Every sale is timestamped, so you can bake to demand instead of guessing.
Simple pricing.
Pay only when you get paid.
See how much you'll earn with the cost calculator.
Enter your product or services price to see how much you'll earn after Honesty Box and Stripe fees.
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Enter an amount to see your net payout
Questions
Everything you need to know about taking card payments at your stall
No. The QR plaque is printed — it needs nothing at all. Your customer's phone connects using their own mobile data or the payment happens through their banking app.
Keep a cash tin alongside the plaque. Most sheds run both. The QR code is there to catch the people you're currently losing, not to replace the ones already paying.
Broadly, yes — that's why honesty boxes have worked in this country for generations. Removing the "I had no change" excuse tends to increase the proportion of people who pay, because most non-payment isn't dishonesty, it's a lack of coins.
Payments are processed by Stripe and settle to your bank account on a weekly rolling basis. You can see every transaction as it happens.
Yes, from your phone, any time. The plaque stays the same — it just points to your shed.
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Your shed's already open. Let people pay.
Set up in ten minutes. No contract, no card reader, no monthly fee to worry about in a quiet week.