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Card payment involves fees, and buying an ePoS system, etc. There's also the parallel EC Card system in Germany, most ePoS terminals only support normal cards,
by nibbleshifter 4y ago
Card payment involves fees, and buying an ePoS system, etc.
There's also the parallel EC Card system in Germany, most ePoS terminals only support normal cards, or EC card.
Its easier to just accept cash. Everyone who lives there knows cash is king, and the tourists figure it out within a short span of time.
- flohofwoe 4y agoYeah, with "card payment" I mean EC cards of course, not necessarily credit cards :)
- lxgr 4y agoThat used to be true, but most places in Berlin nowadays accept cards. Even some "Spätis" accept them these days!
- yladiz 4y agoCard payment does involve fees but they’re not as impactful on business as it may otherwise seem. As many others have mentioned places taking only cash, especially restaurants, do so generally for tax avoidance rather than less fees from the payment processor. As someone who does live in Germany, things changed dramatically during Covid. So many more places accept cards now and I find myself needing to withdrawal cash a lot less frequently than I did pre-Covid. There are still a ton of places that don’t take cards but a lot converted to taking cards, and some even switched to card only after seeing the lower cost of having cash (less risk of break in, less to move around, etc.)