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Swedish social payments startup iZettle expands to Spain

iZettle, the social payments startup from Sweden, today accelerated its European expansion, introducing the service in Spain. This is now the seventh market that iZettle has now entered, already being available in six markets across Europe including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the UK and Germany.

The Stockholm-based ‘Square clone’ was founded in 2010 and makes credit card acceptance possible for small business owners and individuals at a fraction of the cost of traditional point of sale systems. With iZettle there’s no subscription, set up fee, monthly fee or minimum. Instead, iZettle merchants pay 2.75% of each transaction. iZettle then electronically deposits payments in the merchant’s bank account. With the iZettle app and card reader small businesses and individuals can take payments with all major credit cards, including Visa, MasterCard, American Express.

iZettle’s free app is available from Apple’s App Store or Google Play. The chip and signature credit card reader, which plugs into Apple or Android phones and tablets, is, for a limited period of time, available free of charge on their website.

“Spain’s small business owners are hurting – they need a helping hand, and a easy, low cost way to start taking credit card payment so they never have to miss a sale because their customer didn’t happen to have cash,” said Jacob de Geer, co-founder and CEO of iZettle, whose mobile payments app and card reader has increased card acceptances places in Sweden with 25% in just one year.

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Thomas Ohr
Thomas Ohr
Thomas Ohr is the "Editor in Chief" of EU-Startups.com and started the blog in October 2010. He is excited about Europe's future, passionate about new business ideas and lives in Barcelona (Spain).
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  1. I have a business and I just switched to mPowa (www.mpowa.com) and I am happy with it. I don’t think i would get iZettle. Unless every payment I’m going to take will be using a MasterCard. Their card support is limited to be used in a business (like mine) I’ll end up turning so many people away it won’t be worth getting out the iZettle each time just to put it away again. The app is very nice, especially the iPad version, but without good card support it’s nearly useless. Anyhow, congrats to them for expanding in EU.

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