Accepting credit card sales at your gigs

Cd baby credit card swiper program offer independent musician the ability to accept credit card sales at there gigs while at the same time document CD sales through sound scan. How it work is as follow:

Sign up It’s FREE!

• There is a $30 security deposit on the swiping machine (plus $6.97 for shipping and handling), but you get the $30 security deposit back if/when you return the swiping unit.
• No hidden costs. No future costs.
• If you already have a credit card swiping machine through another company, but would rather run your sales through CD Baby, we can send you everything you need to do that FREE - no deposit needed.
• Keep the swiper terminal as long as you want. Return it to get your deposit back, or keep it forever. 

 They will mail you ALL the stuff you need.

• One very portable swiper terminal (No electricity or phone line needed.)
• All the supplies that you need for your first 25 transactions
• Pre-addressed envelopes for your credit card batches, which are computer coded to come back to CD Baby for processing
• Your envelopes will have your unique CD Baby Account number on them so that they know who to credit the sales to. All you need to do is fill out the rest of the information on the front of the envelope: Date of Sales and Event/Venue.
• Refill order forms for when you are running low on supplies. (Refills are FREE!)

Sell stuff at your shows.

• Write the dollar amount on the sales slip along with the item description
• Using the swiper terminal, get the imprint of the customer’s credit card
• Ask the customer to sign the sales slip and write down their phone number and/or email address.
• Give each customer the little yellow “thank you” card (important!) - reminding them that their credit card will be charged by “CD Baby Live Music Sale”
• Batch up each show’s sales slips into a one of our pre-addressed envelopes. As a backup, keep the carbon copies for yourself !
• Write the Date of Sales and the Event/Venue in the section printed on the front of your envelopes, this information is so that we can include it on your sales report and have it on file in case a customer is confused about a charge.

Mail us the slips and get paid

• When they receive your credit card batch, they process your sales right away, and add the money to your account
• You get paid for them in our every-Monday-night payments.
• If you sign up for Direct Deposit, this payment will go right into your bank account.

For more information please visit CDBaby.com