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Advantages of accepting contactless payments
- Card payment transactions of £10 and under, in less than a second
- No authorisation, signature or PIN required*
- Reduced queues, allowing you to serve more customers
- Preferred retailer for all contactless card users
- Higher spend from customers who are not limited by the change in their pocket
- Same secure network as chip and PIN
Advantages of using contactless cards
- They’ll always have the correct ‘change’
- They won’t have to mess about with PIN numbers* or signatures
- They won’t have to queue for so long
- No contact is required, so speeding up the transaction
- Contactless keeps a record of their spend
* For security purposes OneTouch may revert to Chip & PIN to verify cardholder details.
OneTouch is a trademark of Barclaycard Business.



