Card machine guide · Home & field services
For plumbers the Clover Flex Pocket is the usual starting point: invoice-on-site and card on file. Here is how we size the setup and what to avoid.
✓ Installed by our team and supported by phone. Rates and equipment are quoted to your business.
At Merchant Fund Express, we set up Clover for which credit card machine is best for a plumber: the right devices, the features that matter in your workflow and on-site training for your staff.
For most plumbers we start with the Clover Flex Pocket. The Flex Pocket is the lightest device in the lineup: pocket-sized, Wi-Fi and cellular, tap, chip and swipe, with digital receipts by email or text.
Plumbing work is often an emergency call, and getting paid on site closes the loop before the van moves to the next job.
Service call fees, labor and parts invoiced as line items, with estimates for larger jobs and deposits for fixtures ordered in.
Card on site by handheld, invoice by link for businesses and property managers, and some checks that still arrive.
Technicians on the road, with an office coordinating invoices; reports by technician show revenue per job.
A Flex Pocket in each van with cellular, and invoicing from the office for commercial accounts.
We configure your account and hardware before anything ships, then come to you to install, load your items, connect the extras and walk your staff through the first rush, with a phone number for anything that comes up afterward.
| Role | Device | Why it earns its place |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Flex Pocket | In every van |
| Add-on | Flex | With printer for paper receipts |
| Add-on | Mini | Dispatch desk |
Leaving payment for "later" is how a fifteen-day receivable becomes sixty; ask for payment on completion.
With Merchant Fund Express you deal with the people who set the system up. We come on site, train your team and stay reachable by phone, and our funding side is there if you later need capital or equipment financing.
Yes. A handheld on cellular takes payment right after the job and sends a receipt by text or email.
Yes. Invoices with a payment link let commercial customers pay by card without calling the office.
Yes. A handheld with cellular takes payment right after the work and sends the receipt by text or email.
At Merchant Fund Express, yes. Send or read us a recent statement and we will walk through what you pay today, with no obligation.
Call (305) 384-8391. We help you troubleshoot, switch to a backup device or arrange a replacement, and we plan a backup connection when we set you up.
Call Merchant Fund Express. We install it, train your staff and stay on the line after launch. Ask for a free rate review while you are at it.
