FAQ
Questions, answered.
What Batch does, what it replaces, what it runs on and what it costs.
Plans and billing
Plans and billing.
The questions people ask before they choose a plan.
What does a plan cost?
Every plan is a monthly subscription for the whole business, and you process cards with Batch at the rate we quote you. Text messages (coming soon) and AI usage are billed on what you use. Basic runs the counter, Plus adds the back office, and Enterprise is quoted.
What do Plus and Enterprise add?
Basic runs the counter: card payments, the point of sale, the floor, inventory, team and reporting. Plus adds the back office: payroll runs, a double-entry general ledger, loyalty, email marketing and multi-location roll-ups. Text messaging is coming soon. Enterprise is for chains and high volume, and it is quoted.
Why is there no price on Enterprise?
We quote it against your volume. At that size the processing rate is the bigger number and it depends on what you run and your card mix, so we come back with the rate and the plan price together. There is no list price to quote you.
Is there a contract or setup fee?
No long-term contract and no setup fee. Move up or down a plan whenever you want.
Can I run more than one location?
Yes. Stock, drawers and close-outs are kept location by location, a person’s role applies across the business, and reports read either one location or all of them. Billing is per business, so opening another location does not open another subscription.
The product
The product.
What Batch does, and where each module stops.
Is Batch really one system?
Yes. Payments, the floor, inventory, scheduling, team, marketing and the books share one database, and the business pays one subscription. Turn on the parts you use and the rest stays out of the way.
Does Batch work for a business that takes appointments?
Yes. There is a public booking page backed by real availability per provider, overlaps are refused by the database rather than by the screen, and slots are computed in the location’s own timezone. The booking, the payment and the customer end up on one record.
Do I need an accountant to use the ledger?
No. The ledger comes with Plus, and it runs underneath whether or not you open it: sales, refunds, stock at cost and paid payroll runs post themselves. If you do have an accountant, they get a general ledger that balances instead of a pile of exports.
Can Batch pay my staff?
Batch keeps the payroll record: hours from the time clock, declared tips, a run with a line per person, and the journal entry a paid run posts. It does not move payroll money, and it does not pay staff individually.
What does Batch not do?
It keeps no clinical or patient records, it has no case or matter billing, and it does not move money on your behalf beyond taking card payments. Where a module stops, the page for it says so.
Hardware and your data
Hardware and your data.
What it runs on, and what happens to the records you keep in it.
What hardware do I need?
Two things at the counter: the register your team rings on, and the customer-facing pad the card is read on. The pad also comes off the counter and keeps working on Wi-Fi or 4G, so you can take payment at the table, at the curb or at an event. Kitchen display and menu-board screens run on ordinary displays.
Is card data secure?
Batch does not store card numbers. The terminal encrypts the card at the reader, and the sale keeps the last four digits. Each person sees only what their role allows, and each business’s data is kept separate, with row-level isolation in the database as a second check.
What happens to my customer list?
It stays yours. Customers, visits, consent and loyalty balances are your records and can be exported. A customer served at one location is the same customer at the next.
How do I get started?
Choose a plan and create the account, or talk to us first if you would rather we looked at how the business runs today. Either way a person sets up your processing with you, because the rate depends on your volume and card mix.
Ask us directly
Ask the assistant, or tell us how your business runs today.
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