Take cards on the job
Tap, chip or swipe from a phone or a handheld at the job site, with a receipt by text or email.
Home and Field Services
Get paid in the driveway, not thirty days later.
Plumbers, HVAC, garage door, landscaping and contractors work where the customer is. Payments should go with you, and invoices should not sit unpaid while you chase them.
01What you need
Built around your workflow.
Invoices and payment links
Send an invoice or a secure link when the job is done, with automatic reminders until it is paid.
Text to pay
Customers pay from their phone in seconds, whether or not they are home when you finish.
QuickBooks sync
Payments post to QuickBooks automatically, so the books match the bank without retyping.
02Recommended hardware
Devices that fit.
A starting point. We match hardware to how you take payments, and keep your current equipment where it makes sense.
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Clover Flex Pocket
Handheld with payments built in
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Clover Go
Card reader for a phone or tablet
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Square Reader, Contactless and Chip
Tap and chip, wireless
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RCKT Mobile POS
Pocket-sized, secure, efficient
03Platform
The tools you will use most.
Mobile
Accept cards wherever you work: job sites, markets, events. From a phone or tablet.
Invoicing
Build, send and track invoices, with reminders that go out without you chasing them.
Text to Pay
Send a payment request by text and let customers pay from their phone in seconds.
Payment Link
Send a secure link by email or message and get paid without an invoice or a terminal.
04Impact
Every sale funds a cause.
Several of our longest-standing clients are tradespeople. As one master plumber put it, BrightStar makes taking cards at a customer's home so easy even a plumber can do it.
See the networkCost to you$0 extra
RateMatch or beat, in writing
DonationMonthly, in your name
Flagship platform
Run your home services business on BizSimple.
BizSimple relabels itself for home and field services and adds what you need as free add-ons: point of sale, online store, booking, automations and an AI assistant.
05Impact calculator
Your numbers, estimated.
Set your monthly volume and average sale to see your yearly donation and estimated savings.
Donated to your cause
$900per year
$75.00 every month, at no cost to you
Estimated savings for your business
$1,840per year
$153.33 a month back in your pocket
Illustrative estimate. Your real savings depend on what you pay today; a free statement review gives the exact comparison and donation, with your rate matched or beaten in writing.
Guides
Read before you switch.
- For businesses · 5 min
ACH vs Credit Card Payments: Which Should Your Business Accept?
How ACH bank transfers and card payments differ in cost, speed, risk and customer experience, and how to decide when to offer each one.
- For businesses · 6 min
How to Lower Credit Card Processing Fees: 12 Practical Steps
Twelve concrete ways to bring down what you pay to accept cards, from the pricing model you are on to how you key, batch and protect each sale.
- For businesses · 7 min
How to Read Your Merchant Processing Statement
A section-by-section guide to the monthly statement from your card processor, and the handful of lines that tell you whether you are overpaying.
Next step
Send us a recent statement.
That is the whole first step. We come back with a side-by-side comparison and the exact monthly donation your account would generate. If we cannot beat what you have, we will tell you that too.
