VeriFone SAIL Review: Mobile Payment Processor Has Some Impressive Features
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VeriFone SAIL Mobile Payment Processing System
Sign up for the SAIL subscription service at $10 per month, and your per-transaction fees will drop to 1.95 percent per swipe or 2.95 percent per keyed-in transaction. You can void and refund sales using the app, but only for the full transaction amount; you can issue partial refunds through the Web interface. You can also view and download transaction details (including sales, tax, and tip amounts) on the Web.
SAIL accepts and tracks cash payments and tips, and you can email customized receipts--including links to your pages on social networks--to your customers. Text messaging is not supported. The SAIL app did not support printing when this review was originally published, but the company announced on June 27 that printing can be performed by linking VeriFone's VeriFone VX 520 countertop device (which must be rented at a cost of $15 per month) to your SAIL account.
The SAIL card reader is the largest of the four mobile payment processing devices we tested, with a wide plastic arm on its back that’s designed to prevent the reader from swiveling while you swipe a card. In our experience, the arm didn’t prevent all movement, but it did help.
Though the SAIL app and service are both quite appealing, there’s plenty of room for improvement. While you can run the iOS app on an iPad, it doesn’t take advantage of the larger screen. VeriFone says that it will have an iPad-specific version in July. The company's app designers should make the interface more user friendly, while they’re at it: Switching between manually adding sale items and adding them from your inventory is unnecessarily confusing and difficult. And even if you prefer to use the app in portrait orientation, you must switch to landscape orientation to capture a signature.
Note: This review is part of a four-product roundup. You can read the introduction to the roundup here.
Note: This review has been updated to reflect that receipts can now be printed with the addition of a rented VeriFone VX 520 countertop device, and that Android tablet support is now available in a beta version. 7/6/2012
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