Contactless payments came from a need for more security than magnetic-stripe cards, which carry the information associated with your bank account right in the stripe. The benefit today is that they don’t require any physical contact between a customer’s smartphone or credit card and your POS, allowing you to avoid passing payment cards back and forth.

A contactless payment reader or POS with contactless payments built-in, allows you to accept mobile payments, like Apple Pay, Google Pay and Fitbit Pay, in addition to other NFC payments, radio frequency identification (RFID)  or contactless payment cards.

No signature or PIN verification is typically required, contactless purchases are typically limited to small value sales.

Skip the receipt screen

As with disabling the signature screen, you can skip the receipt screen. This allows you to complete a sale without prompting a customer to enter their email address or phone number for a digital receipt, or printing a paper receipt.