Point of Sale IoT Data SIM Cards
Multi-network data SIMs for card terminals, kiosks and signage — where a payment that cannot reach the acquirer is a lost sale, not an inconvenience.
A terminal with no signal takes cash, or nothing
Card machines are put where the customer is: a market stall, a basement bar, a marquee, the far end of a car park. None of those were chosen for coverage, and a terminal that cannot authorise is a queue walking away.
Up to four networks, one SIM
In the UK, France and Spain a Wave SIM reaches four operators. In Germany, Italy and Ireland, three. The terminal attaches to whichever is strongest where it is actually standing.
Profile changes without a site visit
On hardware that supports remote provisioning we load or switch the network profile for you from our side. It depends on the device, so ask us whether yours qualifies.
Buy the data, not a contract
30-day and 12-month plans are bought outright, with no monthly tie and no minimum fleet size. Pooled data shared across sites is priced separately — tell us the estate and we'll quote it.
What a single network costs you
In retail the failure is not abstract. It has a queue behind it.
Indoors is the hard part
Basements, steel-framed units, market halls and marquees all attenuate differently per operator. The one network that works at the till may not be the one that works at the door.
Congestion arrives with the customers
Market day, a festival, the lunch rush. The cell fills up at precisely the moment you are taking the most payments, and a single-network terminal has nothing to move to.
You find out at settlement
Terminals fall back to offline or stored transactions rather than announcing a fault. The gap shows up in reconciliation the next morning, by which point the sale is either late or gone.
What you'll be connecting
Small, frequent transactions, and a handful of devices that pull far more than the rest.
What a terminal actually uses
Payments are among the lightest traffic there is. The cost risk is buying for the terminal and forgetting the screen next to it.
A card terminal
Roughly 10–30 MB a month at a few hundred transactions a day. An authorisation is a few kilobytes; the overhead is the heartbeat and the nightly settlement.
A kiosk or ordering screen
Roughly 100–300 MB a month once product images, price updates and card capture are included.
Digital signage
The heavy one: 1–3 GB a month if it pulls fresh video or artwork on a schedule. Size this separately from the tills.
A fleet of terminals is the cheapest thing on this site to connect — a 6 GB / 12 month plan carries one comfortably for a year with room for a busy Christmas. Signage is where the budget actually goes.
These are indicative figures, not measurements of your estate. Send us a month of traffic from an existing terminal and we will size it against your real profile before you buy anything.
Plans for card machines and terminals
Prices shown in your own currency. Physical SIM and eSIM both work here — most payment terminals take a standard SIM, so check the slot before choosing the eSIM.
Europe 6 GB / 12 Months
Most boughtStandard SIM
Europe 12 GB / 12 Months
Standard SIM
Running a fleet across several sites, or want one pool shared between them? Talk to us about volume pricing.
Common questions
Will this work with my payment provider's terminal?
If the terminal takes a standard SIM and lets you set an APN, yes. Some acquirers lock their terminals to their own SIM or require a specific APN, so check with your provider before ordering a fleet — buy one and test it first rather than twenty.
What happens when a network goes down mid-trade?
The terminal reselects to another operator carried on the same SIM. There is nothing to configure per event and no card to swap. You lose the few seconds the modem takes to reattach, not the afternoon.
Can we use this as a backup to our broadband?
Yes, and it is one of the most common uses. A router with a SIM slot sitting behind the EPOS will fail over when the fixed line drops. Size it for what the till actually needs during an outage, not for the whole shop's browsing.
Does the APN change when the SIM switches network?
No. The APN is set once in the terminal or the router and stays put through reselection, so one setup sheet works across the whole fleet regardless of which operator a given site ends up attached to.
What if a site uses more than its plan?
Nothing auto-bills at a surprise rate. You top the plan up or move that SIM onto a larger one, and the portal can notify you before it runs out rather than after. Across a multi-site estate a shared pool is usually simpler to manage than per-SIM plans.
Tell us about your estate
How many terminals, which provider, and whether there are screens or kiosks alongside them. We'll size it and send a quote, usually the same day.