{"id":11665,"date":"2014-08-13T22:59:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T05:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=11665"},"modified":"2020-08-03T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T21:33:08","slug":"amazon-local-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/08\/13\/amazon-local-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Local Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14322\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0787.png\" alt=\"IMG_0787\" width=\"640\" height=\"1136\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I would definitely use\u00a0Amazon Local Register\u00a0instead of Square because Amazon is charging 1.75% processing fee per swipe until January 1, 2016; compared to Square&#8217;s\u00a0standard 2.75% processing fee. Starting January 1, 2014 the processing fee per swipe is lower than Square&#8217;s; unless Square would match it.<\/p>\n<p>When I signed up for\u00a0<a style=\"color: #d54e21;\" href=\"http:\/\/localregister.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon Local Register<\/a>, I had to create a new Amazon Accounts because my current account is already associated with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/payments.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon Payments<\/a>.\u00a0According to Amazon representative, I needed to register new account as a security precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon representative also told me that\u00a0Amazon Local Register Secure Card Reader\u00a0can be purchased using any accounts. The $10 processing fee will be refunded to the Amazon Local Register account regardless of which account used to purchase the\u00a0Amazon Local Register Secure Card Reader.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Square are giving Square Card Reader for free. Square will be offering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.squareup.com\/townsquare\/posts\/emv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EMV compatible card reader<\/a>\u00a0soon.\u00a0The current\u00a0Amazon Local Register Secure Card Reader\u00a0does not seems to be\u00a0EMV compatible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/localregister.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon Local Register<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Accept credit and debit cards with your mobile phone or tablet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>1.75% processing fee per swipe until January 1, 2016<br \/>\n1.75% introductory rate applies only to card swipe transactions processed through the Amazon Payments account used to sign up for Amazon Local Register. Accounts that sign up after October 31, 2014 are subject to the standard rate for swiped transactions of 2.5%. Manually keyed card transactions are subject to the standard rate of 2.75%. Beginning on January 1, 2016, standard rates will apply to all transactions.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon Local Register Secure Card Reader\u00a0is sold for $10<br \/>\nAmazon will refund $10 in processing fee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amazon Local Register Secure Card Reader\u00a0has been tested for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/localregister.amazon.com\/help\/201551250\/compatible-phones-and-tablets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">compatibilities<\/a>\u00a0with the following devices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iPad<\/li>\n<li>iPad Mini<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 5s<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 5<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 5c<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 4s<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 4<\/li>\n<li>Kindle Fire HD and HDX 7&#8243;<\/li>\n<li>Kindle Fire HD and HDX 8.9&#8243;<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy S3<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy S4<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy S5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Curiously,\u00a0Amazon Fire Phone\u00a0is not on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Local Register App requires\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/amazon-local-register-amazons\/id825947720?ls=1&amp;mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS 7<\/a>\u00a0or later,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00MH6IK8O\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kindle Fire OS<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.amazon.localregister.android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14323\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0804.png\" alt=\"IMG_0804\" width=\"640\" height=\"1136\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would definitely use\u00a0Amazon Local Register\u00a0instead of Square because Amazon is charging 1.75% processing fee per swipe until January 1, 2016; compared to Square&#8217;s\u00a0standard 2.75% processing fee. Starting January 1, 2014 the processing fee per swipe is lower than Square&#8217;s; unless Square would match it. When I signed up for\u00a0Amazon Local Register, I had to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/08\/13\/amazon-local-register\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon Local Register&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[301,327,781,933,1594,1785,1885,2279,936],"class_list":["post-11665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-android","tag-credit-cards","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-kindle-fire","tag-local-register","tag-payment","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-329","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17817,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions\/17817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}