Are Swirl Cards a good alternative to One4All

mjp

Giving €500 vouchers to staff for first time this xmas and looking at an alternative to One4All and seeing mastercards Swirl Card. Looks like we load money onto card and that its accepted anywhere that accepts mastercard. I see that shops have to have card machine that has ability to swipe the cards which has me worried about whether that is going to be an issue using in most places.

Anyone able share experiences of swirl card or any alternative?

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I have used perx pre paid master cards which are similar to swirl. Never had an issue using them in stores and you can also use them online.

Swirl are ok but also very expensive per transaction iirc. There are alternatives with may have cheaper fees.

mjp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119933311#Comment_119933311

Do you mean expensive for retailer or the user? How much do they charge per transaction? Are they accepted I'm supermarkets such as Tesco Dunne's lidl and Aldi do you know?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119934800#Comment_119934800

User. It depends on the value of the transaction, I believe it starts at 25c and goes up to about €2.50.

yes. pretty much universally accepted, it’s just a Mastercard Debit.