Features · Pay by Link

Take the payment without taking the card.

Send a secure payment link by SMS or email. The customer pays on a hosted Stripe page in seconds — and the money lands straight in the till, reconciled to the order. No card numbers read out loud. No keyed-in mistakes. No chargebacks waiting to happen.

Phone orders, deposits, catering, account customers, awkward chargeback recoveries — one link replaces all of it. Same till. Same end-of-night. Less risk.

Card-over-the-phone is the worst payment method you take.

Reading numbers down the line is slow, error-prone and a chargeback magnet. Even when the order is genuine, your staff are exposed: PCI compliance gets blurry, refunds turn into arguments, and a misheard digit means a cancelled transaction five minutes later.

Pay by Link moves the payment to where it belongs — on the customer's own phone, on a secure hosted page, with the bank's authentication in the loop. You get a paid order. They get a proper receipt. Nobody dictates a long number to a busy kitchen.

Every awkward payment, sorted in seconds.

Phone orders

Take the order on the till as normal. Tap "Send link". Customer pays on their phone before you press fire. No more cancelled cards or awkward call-backs.

Catering & party deposits

Lock in the booking with a deposit link. Balance link goes out the morning of the event. Both reconcile against the same order in the till.

Account customers

Office accounts, schools, regulars on a tab — settle the week with a single link instead of chasing invoices. Auto-marked paid in your reporting.

No-shows & disputes

Driver returned with the food? Card declined at the door? Send a link instead of writing it off. Often paid before the driver gets back to base.

Bigger-than-usual orders

That £400 family party order over the phone gets a paid link before prep starts. Your kitchen never produces food you haven't been paid for.

Re-tries on failed cards

Online order failed at checkout? Send a recovery link instead of losing the sale. We already have the basket — they just need to pay.

One link. Same till. No double-keying.

Pay by Link is built into the same till workflow your team already uses. Take the order, hit one button, choose SMS or email, and the link is on the customer's phone in seconds. When they pay, the till goes paid automatically — same as a chip-and-pin tap.

End of night, those orders sit in your reporting alongside every other paid sale. No spreadsheet. No "did Stripe match the till today?" question. The reconciliation is done before you ask.

Hosted, secure, and properly compliant.

Every link opens a Stripe-hosted payment page — Apple Pay, Google Pay and card all available, with 3D Secure handled automatically. Card details never touch your staff, your phone, or your network. PCI scope stays where it belongs: with Stripe.

Pricing follows the same low transparent fees as the rest of your Andromeda card processing — no premium for the convenience. See pricing for the detail.

Stop reading card numbers down the phone.

20 minutes with a live operator. We'll show you a phone order taken, paid and fired — without anyone touching a card.

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