Now you can take credit card payments ANYWHERE - at live shows, conference booths, etc.

You receive a credit card machine, which you can use to sell your CDs, T-shirts or anything you want to your fans with a Visa, Mastercard, American Express, or Discover card. (You can also accept ATM check/debit cards with Visa or MasterCard logos on them)

There are NO signup fees and NO monthly fees. We only keep a 9% expense on what you sell through the credit card machine.

(Note: cds4Christ's usual $4-per-CD fee does NOT apply here! We keep ONLY that 9% cut!)

You will receive a detailed sales report of all your transactions, which includes your customers' names, contact info, and date of sale, so that you can reference it at any time in the future.

The credit card machine does not cost you when you aren't using it!

Here's How It Works

1. It's free!

2. There is a $30 security deposit on the swiping machine, but you get it back if/when you return the swiping unit.

• No hidden costs. No future costs.
• If you already have a credit card swiping machine through another company, but would rather run your sales through cds4Christ, we can send you everything you need to do that FREE - no deposit needed.
• Keep the swiper terminal as long as you want. Return it to get your deposit back, or keep it forever.

• One very portable swiper terminal (No electricity or phone line needed.)
• All the supplies that you need for your first 25 transactions
• Pre-addressed envelopes for your credit card batches, which are computer coded to come back to cds4Christ for processing
• Little green stickers for your envelopes. They have your unique cds4Christ Account number on them so that we know who to credit the sales to.
• Refill order forms for when you are running low on supplies. (Refills are FREE!)

• Write the dollar amount on the sales slip along with the item description
• Using the swiper terminal, get the imprint of the customer's credit card
• Ask the customer to sign the sales slip and write down their phone number and/or email address.
• Give each customer the little yellow "thank you" card (important!) - reminding them that their credit card will be charged by "cds4Christ Live Music Sale"
• Batch up each show's sales slips into a one of our pre-addressed envelopes. As a backup, keep the carbon copies for yourself !
• Write the venue/event name and date on the green sticker on your envelope so that we can include it in your sales report and have it on file in case a customer is confused about a charge.

• When we receive your credit card batch, we process your sales right away, and add the money to your account
• You get paid for them in our monthly payments.

• We email you the detailed batch information so that you can double check it for errors.
• The full details are permanently stored in your members login area.
• Your sales report will include every transaction you have ever made with the swiper and will be categorized by date and venue for easy referencing.
• Listed under each venue/event category is every customer who made a credit card purchase at that show along with the customer's contact information ( assuming that you got this info from them ), dollar amount, and how much was paid to you after the 9%.

• Assuming the card is accepted, the money is added to your cds4Christ account, minus 9%
• It is in one combined payment with all your other CD activity.
• It's up to you whether or not you want to pass the 9% processing fee to your customers. (To do so, you must add the 9% in the tip/misc field on the actual sales slip and then include it in the total.) We strongly recommend NOT doing this, though. You should not penalize people for paying you.

• If a card is declined, don't worry! We will notify you by email so that you can contact your customer to get new card information or arrange some other kind of alternate payment with them.
• A signed, imprinted charge slip serves as a contract of sale between you and the customer, but we find that music fans are usually eager to settle any debt with the independent music community.
• Unlike payments by check, there are no "bounced" or overdraft fees for the merchant when there are insufficient funds while using credit/check cards.