{"id":119424,"date":"2022-11-22T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phorest.com\/?post_type=updates&#038;p=119424"},"modified":"2022-11-22T15:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:31:58","slug":"more-flexibility-taking-payments-with-our-new-virtual-terminals","status":"publish","type":"updates","link":"https:\/\/www.phorest.com\/gb\/updates\/more-flexibility-taking-payments-with-our-new-virtual-terminals\/","title":{"rendered":"More Flexibility Taking Payments with Our New Virtual Terminals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of our expanding PhorestPay functionality, we are excited to add Virtual Terminals which allows you to take manual card payments over the phone directly into your PhorestPay system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Phorest Survey showed that over 90% of salons take payments over the phone. 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