An antique-mall POS that doesn't charge per-transaction fees — and the math on why it matters
Vintique charges $0 per-transaction processing fees because we don't process cards at all — your existing terminal does. Here's why that matters at a 70-booth mall, the math on what bundled-processing platforms cost over a year, and how to keep your current terminal.
Vintique charges $0 per-transaction processing fees on every sale you ring through it. Plans are flat monthly subscriptions — Starter $39, Growth $79, Unlimited $149 — and that is the whole bill. We charge no swipe fees, no per-redemption gift card fees, and no per-vendor settlement fees. We can do this because we don’t process cards at all. Your existing terminal does. Vintique is record-keeping software; the card terminal moves the money.
That sounds like a fine print detail. At a real mall doing real volume, it isn’t.
Why the “no transaction fees” part actually matters
Antique malls are high-volume, low-margin operations. A 70-booth mall on a busy Saturday might process 200–400 separate transactions, mostly in the $20–$80 range, mostly on a card. Bundled-processing platforms — the ones where you sign up for software and the platform is also your card processor — typically take 2.6%–2.9% + $0.10–$0.30 per transaction.[1] [2] That’s revenue leaving the mall on every single ticket, on top of whatever the monthly software subscription costs.
The honest math. A mall doing $1.2 million a year on cards, at a typical bundled processing rate of 2.7% + $0.10 per transaction across roughly 30,000 tickets, is paying about $35,400 a year in processing. If your current terminal is on a similar tier and doing that same processing, you are already paying it — keeping your terminal saves nothing. But moving to a software-plus-processing platform that charges another layer of per-transaction fees on top of your existing terminal is how malls quietly leak five figures a year. Vintique sits in the record-keeping lane only, so you keep paying the processor you already pay and pay us only the flat monthly subscription on top.
What you keep
The card processing setup you have today does not change.
Same terminal. The Verifone, Clover, Square, or Stripe Terminal you have at the counter keeps doing exactly what it does today. We do not need to integrate with it; we just record totals.
Same processor. Whatever processor your terminal is on — your bank, Stripe, Square, your independent merchant services rep — keeps moving the money. Their rates and your monthly statement do not change.
Same customer experience. The shopper still taps / dips / swipes the same terminal. The receipt printer still prints. Nothing visible at the counter changes.
What changes (the upside)
$0 per-transaction processing fees from us. Ever. On any plan.
No card data in our systems. Customer card numbers never touch Vintique, which keeps you out of PCI scope on the software side.
No vendor lock-in to a specific processor. If you ever change processors — for a better rate, for closer settlement, or because you switched banks — Vintique doesn’t care. Nothing in the software needs to change.
Mall-wide gift cards with no per-redemption fee. Some platforms charge a fraction-of-a-percent on every gift card redemption. Ours don’t. Sell, redeem, partial-redeem, and refund as much as you want — flat monthly subscription, full audit trail, atomic balance updates so a card can’t ever go negative.
”But isn’t bundled processing simpler?”
For some businesses — a single-location coffee shop opening from scratch — bundled processing is simpler. The trade is that you accept the bundled rate and the lock-in.
For an antique mall that already has a terminal and an established processor relationship, bundled processing is a worse deal. You’d be paying twice: once to your existing processor for the actual card rails, and again to the new POS platform on top. The platform is then incentivized to keep you on their terminal forever, because every switch costs them margin. The simpler, cheaper, more flexible path is to keep the cards on your existing terminal and put the record-keeping on a flat-rate platform.
What Vintique does cost
Three plans, all with the full feature set, distinguished only by how many active booth vendors you can have and the level of support:
Starter — $39 / month. Up to 10 active booth vendors. Best for new malls finding their footing.
Growth — $79 / month. Up to 30 active booth vendors, plus priority email support. Most popular for established malls.
Unlimited — $149 / month. Unlimited active booth vendors, first-in-line for new features, and dedicated onboarding help. Built for multi-location and high-volume malls.
Every plan includes the AI item lookup, Chrome extension, store-layout sandbox, mall-wide gift cards, CSV importer with one-click undo, full data export, daily/monthly/annual reports, and end-of-day vendor digests. 30-day free trial, no charge until day 31. Cancel anytime from your Settings page.
See the current pricing page for plan details and the FAQ. For more on the migration playbook, see
How to switch from Mall Sales Manager (or any legacy antique-mall POS) in an afternoon
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Open a workspace in under a minute. Bring your old data with the CSV importer. 30 days free, no charge until day 31.