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Payment guides for real UK businesses

Twelve practical write-ups on how different types of business take money, where the friction sits, and what Teya card machines, Instant Settlements and turnover-linked funding actually change day to day.

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Hotels & accommodation

Hotels and guest houses: deposits, pre-auths and multi-terminal sites

Reception, bar, restaurant and spa each need their own payment flow — and one clean reconciliation at the end of the night.

3 min
Market traders & street food

Market traders and street food: taking payments where there is no Wi-Fi

Cash-only stalls turn away a large share of potential customers. Mobile card payment is now the baseline for street trading, not an upgrade — but only if it works on a wet field.

3 min
Salons & barbers

Hair and beauty salons: deposits, no-shows and getting paid on time

A 15% no-show rate on a fully booked Saturday runs into thousands a year. Deposits and card-on-file change client behaviour in a way reminder texts do not.

3 min
Restaurants

Restaurants: what table-service payments should really cost you

Card fees are a percentage of your busiest nights. Here is how to read a restaurant statement properly, what to challenge, and where pay-at-table actually earns money back.

4 min
Pubs & bars

Pubs and bars: surviving a busy Saturday without a payment bottleneck

Two terminals behind a four-deep bar is not a luxury. It is the difference between serving the room and losing the last hour of trade on the night that pays for the week.

4 min
Cafés & coffee shops

How independent cafés cut queue times at the 8am rush

A flat white takes 90 seconds to make. If the card machine takes six seconds to authorise, the morning rush stops moving. Here is how café owners find and fix the real bottleneck.

5 min

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