Market Farming

["Wendy's Produce" <info AT avalonfarms.us>]

We just bought a LG Ally Android phone (going for about $125) from Ebay and transferred my prepaid Page Plus Cellular $29.95/mo plan over to it.  Registered it with Square Up (took about 2 weeks to get the reader doohickey).  Page Plus gives me  50 MB of data a month on the Verizon network, more than enough for the Square Up transactions.  It works GREAT! Can’t recommend it highly enough. No monthly fees aside from the phone plan which I would have anyway.

 

 

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Wendy

Avalon Farms LLC

"Fresh local produce from the family homestead"

334-806-5058

 

 

 

 

From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Richard Stewart
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 8:21 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Credit Cards at Farmers Market

 

We had a similar discussion last month...or was that November?  We decided to go with the Square set up.  Super easy.  I'll probably be upgrading to iPhone before the heavy season starts to handle it when I am locations that do not have Wi-Fi.  Right now I am using an iPod touch.  Works well except no 3G set-up.

 

Ideally an iPad would be the way to go since it has a function for the pad that allows you to turn it into a digital cash register, but I would wreck one on the farm and the cost is so much more than a phone.  The iPhone is far more flexible I think.

 

Richard Stewart

Carriage House Farm

North Bend, Ohio

 

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

 

(513) 967-1106

http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com

rstewart AT zoomtown.com