So, recently I had to assist my mom in setting up a quick way to process credit cards and debit cards. I don’t think we necessarily did it the cheapest way, but in a way that is highly efficient for the time involved. It took us about 15 minutes to verify what was available online and locally procurable, 10 minutes to drive to the local Walmart and about another 15 minutes to walk out the door. For the sake of ease, the products we bought were the following:
TracFone Extended Data Plan (8GB)
Now with these you get a fairly cheap android phone, 8gb of data in case you actually need to process a lot of transactions, and a contactless reader for chip and tap reading along with a magstripe reader so that no matter what you are presented you can process payment. From there, the next part is setting up an account with Square rather through their app (available for Android and iOS) or their website.