Good Afternoon, Does the Rakuten Card Reader (Rakuten Pay) work with Shopify POS? It’s unfortunate that we cannot use Shopify Card Reader with Shopify POS in Japan. That being said, I do have some concerns with the Settlement Fee List. Please let me know if I got this right. Example. I choose Sta…

Update: You will not be charged additional Shopify payment fees if you are only using Rakuten Card Reader on Shopify POS. The charges only occur online payments, if you are using Shopify payments and Rakuten together, which is extremely fair. However, you will be charged a monthly payment for the P…

Hello Birch, I am actually working on the same stuff here. We applied for Rakuten, Square(not working) and Otegaru pay. Rakuten take almost one month to be approved, so we are still waiting for the approval. I will be using shopify payment for my online store. But since we can not do that in POS…

Hi Birch, We got approved all Rakuten and otegaru pay in about 3 weeks. Rakuten sent the terminal about 1 week after approwal. Otegaru took additional 3 weeks after approwal to send the terminal and printer to us. Square was by far the fastest it took only 2 weeks to finish everything including r…

Hi Kitikate, That is great news. I’m extremely happy for you. Unfortunately, we were rejected. We sent pictures of the building, a copy of the lease contract, copy of the Internet/phone application. But there is nothing that can tell we are really opening a furniture/decor shop “Birch&Hue”. They wa…

Dear Birch, sorry for the late reply/ Thank you and I am sorry to hear that. You did everything well, but Rakuten is for example doing land line checking phone call. If you dont have land line at the shop place and you dont pick up the phone introducing yourself like Hello you reached Birch, tey …

WOW! This is fantastic and valuable information. We are also in the middle of the construction and probably won’t open until May or June. We finally got internet and internet phone, so I may try that approach. I’ll send them designs too. If all fails, I’ll just use square. That’s who I’m using fo…

Kitikate have you had any luck with Rakuten Pay? I resubmitted with a business phone number, actual store door sign, finished website, corporate business license, rental agreement, the electric bill, and warehouse rental agreement. Unfortunately, it would be hard to open without a POS and card reade…

Hi Kitikate, I also started my shop with Shopify anad doing markets and lookijng for hardware to implement with my Shopify POS. You mentioned square hardwares does not work? Please let me know if you have successfully implemented rakuten payments with your POS. Thank you.

Hi Birch, Ali here. Ive also started my shopify and wanted to do markets. I dont have a physical store burt I want to use Rakuten pay to integrate in my POS. Di you get approved on Rakuten pay?

Does Rakuten Card Reader work well with Shopify POS in Japan?

Retail & Point of Sale

Birch January 15, 2021, 7:00am 4

Kitikate ,

Yes, JCB handles the approval process for Rakuten and they do take some time. Not sure if you are aware, Rakuten has a promo right now for a free Card reader.

Link: Rakuten Promo

I will keep you updated as well.

Good Luck

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Does Rakuten Card Reader work well with Shopify POS in Japan?

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