Zettle is now called PayPal Point of Sale. Same product, same readers, same accounts — PayPal folded the Zettle brand into its own point-of-sale range. Most people still call it Zettle, and search for it that way, so we use both names here.
If you already have a Zettle reader in a drawer, nothing about it has stopped working.
PayPal POS is a card reader with a point-of-sale app behind it: inventory, sales reporting, receipts. It is built for a person serving a customer.
HonestyBox is a QR code on a stall with nobody standing at it. There is no app to open, no reader to hold, and no you.
PayPal can place holds, reserves or account limitations if it flags activity as unusual, and funds can sit for a period while that is reviewed. This is normal across payment providers, ours included — Stripe can do the same. It is worth knowing about rather than discovering in December.
PayPal POS, per pound, on in-person sales. Our rate is higher because we are not competing on rate — we are collecting money from a shed at eight on a Sunday morning when you are not in it.
Where it evens out is the sale that never happened. A reader in your kitchen drawer earns nothing from the person who stopped at your gate on Tuesday, wanted the eggs, had no change and drove off. That is the transaction we are pricing.
It is PayPal Point of Sale now. Existing users keep their accounts and the core service is unchanged.
Yes. A reader for the farmers' market, a QR plaque on the gate for the days you are not there.
No. We run on Stripe, and the money goes to your own Stripe account and out to your bank.
Not with HonestyBox — they use their phone camera and pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Nothing to install.