Clover

Take card payments with Clover

Typing the total into the terminal by hand is where the $180 repair gets charged as $18. Connecting Clover removes the keypad from the process entirely.

1. Open “Cloud Pay Display” on the Clover terminal

   On the Clover device itself, install the Cloud Pay Display app from the Clover App Market, open it and leave it open. That app is what receives the amounts the POS sends; if it is closed, the terminal does not answer.

2. In the POS: Settings → Integrations → Clover

   Go to Settings, tab Integrations. In the Clover card, pick the store this terminal belongs to and press Connect Clover. Start here, not from the Clover App Market: starting from the App Market brings you back without authorizing anything.

3. Sign in to Clover as the merchant OWNER and press Allow

   Clover opens its own login page. Sign in with the owner user of the merchant (an employee login cannot grant the permission), choose the merchant if you have more than one, and press Allow. Do not close that tab: wait until it brings you back to the POS showing Clover connected. We never see your Clover password — Clover hands back a permission, not your login.

4. Pick the terminal and assign it to each register

   Back in the Clover card, choose your terminal from the list (it shows the name and serial of the devices on that merchant) and press Save: that is the store’s terminal. If the store has more than one register, the card also shows Terminal for each register: give each register its own terminal, or the same serial to all of them if they share one (leaving it empty also uses the store’s terminal).

5. Press “Test terminal”, then charge $1

   Press Test terminal: it should say Terminal connected. If it says the terminal did not respond, Cloud Pay Display is not open on the device. Then ring up a $1 sale and pay it by card: the amount appears on the terminal by itself, and the sale is only marked paid when Clover approves it. Do it before the first customer, not with someone waiting at the counter.

6. If a red “Could not connect Clover” notice comes back

   It says why. Sent you back without authorizing anything: you started from Clover’s App Market — come back to this screen, pick the store and press Connect. The link expired or was opened halfway: press Connect again and finish without closing that tab. That store does not belong to your company: pick the right store above and try again. Clover did not grant permission: check in Clover that the ProcellPOS app is installed on THAT merchant and that you signed in as the owner. Something failed: try again; if it keeps failing, tell us the exact time.

7. Pass the card fee on to the customer

   In Settings › Business, find Extra charge by payment method and turn on Charge extra depending on the payment method. Set what each method costs, as a percentage of the amount or a fixed amount per payment, and choose where it is charged. It is added to the total with its own line on the receipt. Cash never carries a charge. If debit and credit have different charges, the POS asks which one it is when you charge by card. Visa and Mastercard cap it at 4%, and some states have their own rules, so check with your processor and put up a sign where you are required to.