Clover Mobile POS Review

I bought the Clover Mobile in Jan. 2016. It immediately would not hold a charge and they replaced it. Fast forward 9 months later and the replacement will not hold a charge. They are sending a replacement. But they made me buy a new charger for $40 before sending a replacement. My warranty will be up in January and I'm scared to death that it will stop charging again. I bought it ourtright and am thinking I have no recourse after January. Do not buy this junk. Bad for business.

We have purchased the Clover mobile through our Suntrust bank branch and were very excited about the capabilities. It is a nice unit except for one major problem. In 6 months we have been sent 6 replacement devices because a bug causes all debit entries to be ran as credit entries. Well after the second device, I started wondering if this is some kind of procedure put into place by First Data. Their credit card rates are higher, but they sell you on the fact that all debit transactions are free. Which is great, if their equipment didn't disable debit transactions every 4 weeks. This has cost us a few hundred dollars per month on credit card fees that should have been run as debit. The equipment is cool and fast, but that debit scam is pretty sinister.

The Clover Mobile POS system gives you portability, but there are some downsides. Clover machines can't be reprogrammed if you switch processors, and to use a Clover, you have to purchase TransArmor security at an additional monthly cost.