{"id":12539,"date":"2026-10-20T09:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/docs\/payments-without-terminal\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T13:15:08","password":"","slug":"payments-without-terminal","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/payments-without-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking payments at a market or a fair without a terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You do not necessarily need a terminal to accept TWINT and cards at your stall. With 1pay.ch you have two options that work with a phone and have no fixed costs: you only pay the fee when you get paid.<\/p>\n<h2>Which one to choose<\/h2>\n<h3>QR Pay: customers pay with their own phone<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What you need:<\/strong> your QR code, printed and placed on the stall.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How customers pay:<\/strong> if they scan the code with the TWINT app, they pay straight away with TWINT. If they scan it with their phone camera, a page opens where they choose from all the methods you have activated, cards and wallets included.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best for:<\/strong> donations, fixed prices, stalls without long queues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Tap to Pay: you take payments with your phone<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What you need:<\/strong> an Android phone with NFC and the app.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How customers pay:<\/strong> you type in the amount and the customer holds their card or phone to yours. If they want to pay with TWINT, the app shows a QR code for the exact amount.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best for:<\/strong> amounts that change with every sale and customers who pay by card.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many stalls use both: the QR code on the stall for TWINT users, Tap to Pay for those who reach for a card.<\/p>\n<h2>Ready in 15 minutes<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Open your account and complete the verification, if you have not done so yet: see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/open-free-account\/\">Opening your free account<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For the QR code: download it from the admin area and print it large (at least A5). Everything is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/qr-pay-code\/\">QR Pay<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For Tap to Pay: install the app on the Android phone and make a test payment. Everything is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/tap-to-pay-android\/\">Tap to Pay<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Check the phone signal where your stall will be.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Tips for the stall<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Write the price next to the QR code: the customer types it in and you check the amount before handing over the goods.<\/li>\n<li>Always look at the payment confirmation on the customer&#8217;s phone or in the notification: it is the proof that the payment went through.<\/li>\n<li>Only use the QR code downloaded from your admin area, and check now and then that nobody has stuck a different sticker over it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you take a lot of payments or want a printed receipt, consider a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/pos-terminals\/\">POS terminal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do not necessarily need a terminal to accept TWINT and cards at your stall. With 1pay.ch you have two options that work with a phone and have no fixed costs: you only pay the fee when you get paid. Which one to choose QR Pay: customers pay with their own phone What you need: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[201],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12539","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-payments"],"acf":[],"year_month":"2026-11","word_count":374,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"1pay.ch","author_nicename":"1pay_admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/author\/1pay_admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Payments","term_url":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs-category\/payments\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/12539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/12539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12913,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/12539\/revisions\/12913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=12539"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=12539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}