Article about the various easy services or ways to take in credit cards with mobiles.

"Alternative ways to take credit cards. Ditch your merchant account! 

Taking credit cards used to be a big deal for small businesses. It involved setting up a merchant account, passing a credit check, leasing or buying equipment and agreeing to a multi-year commitment. That was just the getting started part. The traditional merchant processing industry standard seemed to be lots of fees, and little customer service for small accounts. It has been a source of ongoing pain for small business, but everything has changed."-link to source

Right now for a small transaction fee with no monthly fees there are several companies that enable your mobile device, your smart phone, cell phone, etc to take credit card payments.  If you're selling something in the street or going door to door selling, or selling from office to office, etc.  Say a hot dog stand or souvenir stand, these new payment methods seem ace, the article goes into detail regarding the various companies offering such services.

 That website also links to a more recent article on smartphone credit card readers, at the following link.