A tablet on a wooden stand and a card reader on a wooden counter, before a big window on the mountains

The counter

One counter for the day.

Ring up the visit and tap Apply. The guest's online deposit comes off first, and only the rest goes to the card reader.

Start See a sample day

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A sample day at the counter

Overnight, a guest books online and pays a deposit.

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Morning. The counter opens on Sale.

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Ring up a sale and tap Charge.

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Tap, chip or swipe on the reader. Tips are available.

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Or take cash, and see the change due.

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When the guest with a deposit comes in, tap Apply.

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The deposit comes off first. Only the rest goes on the card.

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At close, the whole day adds up on one screen.

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How it works

Cards at the counter, with the deposit already counted.

Live at a real business's counter. The screens on this page are from a sample day.

Ring up a sale. A guest's online deposit comes off before tax.
Cards on your reader: tap, chip or swipe. Tips are available.
Cash, with the change due on the screen.
Receipts by email, offered on the reader.
Today's bookings, made online or by phone, in one view.
Refunds, whole or part, back to the card. Only you can give them.
The day's takings, added up at close.

The counter needs an internet connection to take cards.

Nothing is saved to send later, so a card is never declined after the customer has gone. A reliable connection at your counter is part of every Commerce conversation.

The counter screen with no connection: a total of $11.25, with Cash and Charge both switched off. — Till 2 · a sample day · no connection, so Cash and Charge switch off

The price

4.6% + 30¢ on each card payment, on domestic cards.

4.6% for the 406.

The same rate at the counter and online, and your customer pays nothing extra. Cards from other countries cost more, and that extra is passed through. Cash carries no fee.

The card reader is yours: you buy it, and it's registered to your own Stripe account.

The setup and the quote are worked out together, in a conversation.

Talk to us

Talk to your AI about this

Copy this and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or whatever you use. It brings this page with it, and tells your AI where to read the rest.

I'm looking at BeargrassAI (https://beargrassai.com/). BeargrassAI helps owner-led rural small businesses get found and described truthfully, by people and by AI. One person, Mark Ulett, in Columbia Falls, Montana. Help me decide whether it fits my business.

Read before you answer. Open each link yourself; do not guess what it says, and tell me if one will not open.

1. https://beargrassai.com/commerce/counter/: the page I was reading: The counter.
2. https://beargrassai.com/llms.txt: who BeargrassAI is, when it fits, every price and the facts.
3. https://beargrassai.com/llms-full.txt: every page in full, if you can read a long file.
4. https://beargrassai.com/pricing/: what each thing costs and what it includes.
5. https://validated.directory/b/beargrassai: BeargrassAI's own record in its directory, the kind of record a business gets.
6. https://beargrassai.com/directory/: the Directory, step one.
7. https://beargrassai.com/scout/: Scout, step two.
8. https://beargrassai.com/diy/: DIY, step three: the kit, hosting and the tools.
9. https://beargrassai.com/custom/: custom work, bookings and payments.
10. https://beargrassai.com/about/: who builds it and answers the phone.

How to weigh it:
- Check each claim against the page it comes from, and name the page.
- Work out what it would cost me in a year from the pricing page, not from memory.
- Look at BeargrassAI's own directory record as an example of what my business would get.
- Say plainly if it does not fit, or if something simpler or free would do.

First, ask me three or four questions about my business: what I do, the towns I serve, who my customers are, and what they ask before they call. Wait for my answers. Do not guess.

Then tell me, in plain words:

One. Whether BeargrassAI fits my business, and which of its offers, if any.
Two. What it would cost me in the first year.
Three. What I would have afterwards that I do not have now.
Four. Anything you could not check, and how I could check it.

Nothing is sent anywhere. It goes to your clipboard.

One counter for the day.

A sample day at the counter

Cards at the counter, with the deposit already counted.

The counter needs an internet connection to take cards.

4.6% + 30¢ on each card payment, on domestic cards.

Start with the Directory. Go further when you are ready.