Dongles, dongles everywhere. Since the launch of Square’s lozenge-shaped credit card reader in 2010, dongles to process credit card transactions have proliferated with ecstatic abandon. Many are free. Many are odd-looking. Most are black. We’ve corralled a wide sampling of them here for your viewing pleasure. Have we missed a few? Quite likely! There’s always room for more (presumably). Take a break from the August grind and stroll through our menagerie of dongles. First up is the iconic Square reader. And a category was born. Also available in black at Target, just $9.99. Chase Mobile Checkout from Chase Paymentech is a new entrant to the field aimed more at larger mobile sellers rather than micro merchants. IDTech’s UniMag mobile magstripe reader comes with clips to fit a variety of mobile devices. Roampay G4X mobile card reader. An alternate version exists for EMV cards rather than magstripe. ProPay Jak. ProPay was acquired by TSYS in 2012. PayPal Here. PayPal is the leader in mobile payments volume and its triangular dongle works in the US and several Asian countries. If you live in Canada, you may have paid for maple syrup or gravy fries [...]
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