POS hardware*
Terminal, barcode scanner, ID scanner, receipt printer, and cash drawer, shipped with your catalog already loaded.
VOUCHER Q-01 · ISSUED AT SIGNUPPOS · Payments · Marketing · Vape & smoke retail
Banks drop you. Processors gouge you. Ad platforms ban you. Qape is the one platform underwritten for your category from day one: register, ID checks, payments, inventory, and marketing that actually works for the trade.
Merchant Account Application
PROCESSING · POS · CATEGORY: AGE-RESTRICTED RETAIL
Your category is not a red flag here. It is the whole business. · qape.io
What you get on day one
No install fee, no hardware invoice, no separate vendors to sign with. One sheet, four slips, issued with your account.
Terminal, barcode scanner, ID scanner, receipt printer, and cash drawer, shipped with your catalog already loaded.
VOUCHER Q-01 · ISSUED AT SIGNUPYour own age-verified ordering site. Orders land on the same screen as walk-ins.
VOUCHER Q-02 · ISSUED AT SIGNUPCampaigns, offers, and loyalty run by our team using your sales data. You approve, we send.
VOUCHER Q-03 · ISSUED AT SIGNUPSend your current statement. If we cannot beat your effective rate, we tell you straight.
VOUCHER Q-04 · IN WRITINGThe register
A smoke shop menu is not a menu, it is a warehouse. Flavors, strengths, sizes, and coils multiply into thousands of items. The register is built for that wall.
Barcode first, search second. Flavor and strength variants live under one parent item, so ringing is one motion.
The register asks for the ID before it takes the tender. Scan the license, the sale unlocks, the check is logged with a timestamp.
Keep ringing and keep taking cards through an outage. Everything syncs when the connection returns.
Vape retail gets labeled high risk and billed accordingly, and most owners never see the real number. Send us one statement. We read it, show you the effective rate you are actually paying, and quote you lower.
Rate check
$24,480
Trim that rate by a quarter of a point and you keep $1,800 a year. Shops billed as high risk are usually much further off than that.
Your effective rate is total fees divided by total card sales, not the number on the ad. It is on the summary page of your statement.
The big ad platforms ban your category, so your growth has to come from channels you own. Everything below runs on the sales already flowing through your POS.
Text and email built from what people actually buy. Win back the regular who has not come in for a month.
Points earn at the register and online. No extra app for your customer to download or your staff to learn.
Age-verified checkout with delivery and pickup on a site you own, catalog synced live from the register.
The phone gets picked up while you ring. Stock questions, hours, and holds handled around the clock.
ID scans, purchase limits, and category tax rules logged automatically. When an inspector asks, the answer is a report.
Best hour, dead stock, margin by category, labor as a share of sales. One dashboard across every location.
The rest of the platform
Included With Every Account
SOFTWARE MODULES · SHIPPED ACTIVE · NO PER-MODULE INVOICES
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Explore more features"Three processors dropped us before this. Now the rate is written into the agreement, the ID check is part of the sale instead of a sticky note on the register, and my counts finally match the shelf."
Switching
Most shops go live between one close and the next morning. Nobody loses a Saturday to a catalog rebuild.
Send a photo of last month's processing statement and an export of your catalog. You get your real effective rate and a quote back within a day.
Items, variants, prices, and tax categories are set up for you and checked against your old system before anything ships.
Hardware arrives configured, ID scanner included. Someone from our team is on the phone through your first day, not a ticket queue.
Before you switch
Straight answers on cost, processing, compliance, and what happens the morning you open on it.
Something not covered here? Ask us on the demo and we will answer it against your actual numbers.
Nothing up front. The hardware, your age-verified website, and the first six months of marketing come with the account. You pay a monthly software fee and your card processing rate, and both are on the table before you sign anything.
Ours will, because the account is underwritten for vape and tobacco retail from day one instead of being approved generically and reviewed later. That is the difference between a rate that holds and a deposit that freezes in December.
The register prompts before it takes the tender on any age-restricted item. Your staff scans the license, the sale unlocks, and the check is logged with a timestamp. If an inspector ever asks, the answer is a report, not a memory.
Most shops close on their old system and open on ours the next morning. The catalog build, variants, and tax categories are done by our team before the hardware ships, so there is no weekend lost to setup.
No. Send an export from your current system, or photos of the shelves if that is what you have, and we build it out with variants grouped under parent items. You review the whole thing before it goes live.
The register keeps ringing and keeps taking cards. Sales and payments sync the moment the connection returns, so an outage does not turn into a line walking out the door.
There is no early termination fee, no monthly minimum, and no PCI or statement fee. If your rate ever moves without us telling you first, you can leave with no penalty.
Yes. One account runs a single counter and six stores across town, with a shared catalog, per-store pricing where you need it, and one dashboard over all of it.
Ready when you are
Your actual products on the screen, and a straight answer on what you are paying to process cards today.
Free hardware*, free website with delivery & pickup, and six free months of marketing for shops that switch.
Merchant Account Application
PROCESSING · POS · CATEGORY: AGE-RESTRICTED RETAIL
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