Fully in the grips of the digital age, it seems safe to say that cash is no longer king. With speed, ease and overall convenience the calls of the day, people are increasingly turning to alternative payment methods, be it credit cards, automatic online transactions or otherwise. 

The big worry that this presented was that small businesses, particularly mobile ones (think freelance plumbers, hairdressers, delivery drivers, etc.) could very well have been left behind, unable to afford to often costly software, devices, transaction fees and waiting times previously necessary to facilitate cashless payments. With the emergence of services like SumUp, however, that is all about to change. 

With significant technological advancements having been made in recent times, mobile card readers have come on leaps and bounds, with the EMV card reader from SumUp presenting a range of benefits that specifically help smaller companies who were otherwise under threat of being squeezed out of the market due to an inability to accommodate the modern preference for cards over cash. These include: