Order, return, or replace terminals

For testing, you can order test payment terminals and an Adyen test card from your test Customer Area. With the test card, you can make payments on the test terminals. These are dummy payments that do not result in actual credits or debits to a live bank account.

When you are ready to go live, you need to order terminals from your live Customer Area. These are terminals that can make live payments.

Submit a sales order

Before you begin, make sure you have the following roles:

• Both Merchant terminal order and Merchant POS standard role
• Or Merchant POS Terminal Management Admin

To order payment terminals and accessories:

1. Log in to your Customer Area.
2. Switch to the merchant account that you want to place the order from.
3. Go to In-person payments > Orders and returns.
4. Select New sales order.
5. Select the country/region where the products will be used. This determines the plug type for the products.
6. Select the terminals and accessories you want to order and add them to your cart. To make any changes to your order, select the Edit cart button.

   When ordering test terminals, do not forget to add a test card to your order if you do not have one yet.

7. Select Checkout.
8. Provide the Shipping address and a Purchase order number. You can select an existing delivery address, or add a new address.
9. Select Continue to order summary and review your order. As long as you haven't placed the order yet, you can make any changes you like.
10. Select Place order.

We keep you up to date on the status of your order through email messages and in your Customer Area > Orders and returns. Your order will be dispatched from our warehouse within two business days. You can then track your order delivery.

To see how to order terminals, you can also watch a video here:

When your terminal arrives you will need to board it. This connects the terminal to the internet, and associates it with one of your physical stores.

Returning or replacing terminals

If your Adyen payment terminal is faulty, you have to place a return order or a replacement order in your Customer Area. We send you packaging and instructions to return the faulty terminal free of charge using a courier company of our choice.

• Return order: Return a faulty terminal. If you need a new terminal to replace the old one, you have to place a separate sales order.
• Replacement order: Return a faulty terminal and order a new one in the same request. This is possible if you are using our Terminal Replacement Service (TRS). For a monthly fee, you get a replacement terminal free of charge if the defect of the old terminal is covered by TRS.

Troubleshoot first

Before returning or replacing a terminal, follow the steps in our terminal troubleshooting guide. This can resolve around 80% of terminal issues.

If the troubleshooting steps do not solve the problem, you may need to contact our Support Team, or return the terminal.

Terminal Replacement Service (TRS)

TRS is a service where you pay a monthly fee per terminal to replace defective terminals. If you return a faulty terminal with a defect that is covered by TRS, we send you a replacement terminal free of charge. As soon as we receive the defective terminal we stop charging you TRS fees for that terminal.
TRS is activated at the company level, but it is possible to configure it so you get billed at the merchant account level. When terminals have been in your possession for one month, the monthly billing starts. If you reassign a terminal to a different merchant account in the middle of the month, the new merchant account is charged fees for that terminal for the whole month.
To sign up for TRS, discuss the contractual requirements with your Adyen contact or our Support Team.

How it works

After you have signed up for TRS:

1. You place a replace terminals order in your Customer Area.
2. We send you the replacement terminals.
3. You send us the defective terminals in the packaging that the replacement terminals came in. Adyen covers the cost of returning the defective terminal.
4. We examine the returned defective terminals:
   • If the defect is covered by TRS, you pay no additional fees.
   • If there is no defect, you cover the examination cost up to 50% of the terminal's standard listed price.
   • If the defect is not covered by TRS, you cover the repair cost up to 100% of the terminal's standard listed price.

What is covered by TRS

You can find the full scope of TRS in our legal documentation. The section 3.5 Defects and exclusions lists the defects that are not covered by TRS.

Additionally, TRS does not cover:

• Terminals that are being deprecated because their PCI security approval is expiring.
• Defective accessories, such as cables, frames, or charging bases.

Submit a return or replacement order

Before you begin, make sure you have the following roles:

• Both Merchant terminal order and Merchant POS standard role
• Or Merchant POS Terminal Management Admin

To place a return or replacement order:

1. Find the serial numbers of the terminals you want to return or replace.

   The terminal serial number is shown:

   • On the underside of the terminal. Example: S/N:123-456-789.
   • In the Device info screen.

2. Optional. If you are returning multiple terminals, prepare a CSV file with the required details.

3. Log in to your Customer Area.

4. Switch to your merchant account.

5. Go to In-person payments > Orders and returns and select New return / replacement order.

6. Select New request.

7. Select the option to return terminals, or the option to replace terminals (available if you signed up for TRS).

8. To provide the serial numbers and problem information, either:

   • Specify terminals one by one. Enter the serial number, select the problem category, optionally enter a problem description, and select Continue. To add more terminals, select Add more items and repeat.

   or

   • Upload the CSV file you prepared earlier. If an error message appears, fix the error in the CSV file and try again.

9. Select Continue to shipping details and provide the Shipping address and a Purchase order number.

   You can choose an existing delivery address, or add a new address.

10. Select Continue to summary and check. As long as you haven't placed the return or replacement order yet, you can make any changes.

11. Select Submit request.

We keep you up to date on the status of your order through email messages and in your Customer Area > Orders and returns. You can track the delivery.

To see how to return terminals, you can also watch a video here:

Preparing a CSV file for multiple terminals

When you return or replace a terminal, you need to specify the terminal serial number and the type of problem. If you are returning multiple terminals you can provide these details in a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

The CSV file should have the following fields:

The first line should have the field names, and each subsequent line should have the details for a single terminal.

Example CSV file:

deviceModel,serialNumber,problemCategory,description
Verifone.E355,123-456-789,Display failure,lorem ipsum
Verifone.E355,234-567-890,Hardware damage,

Send terminals back to us

After you submit a return order or a replacement order, we send you a box with a seal bag, return label, and instructions to send the faulty terminal back to us. These are the instructions included in the box:

Cancel an order

After you have placed an order, it is no longer possible to change the order. But if we haven't processed the order yet, you can cancel the order.

To cancel an order:

1. Log in to your Customer Area.
2. Switch to your merchant account.
3. Go to In-person payments > Orders and returns.
4. View the Status of the request: Placed means it has not been processed and can be cancelled.
5. Select the request and select Cancel this order.

Track delivery

For each shipment from our warehouse, a track and trace is created with the courier company. To track your delivery:

1. Log in to your Customer Area.
2. Switch to your merchant account.
3. Go to In-person payments > Orders and returns.
4. On the row of the order, in the Track & trace column, select the name of the courier company.
   You are redirected to a site where you can track your order.

Terminal order updates

To stay informed about your order, you can subscribe to Terminal order update webhooks. These webhooks occur at certain steps in the logistical process and contain information such as shipment date, terminal serial numbers, and track & trace number. These webhooks are HTTP callbacks to your server.

Receive webhooks

To set up receiving Terminal order updates, follow the general instructions to set up webhooks. In summary:

1. Expose an endpoint on your server where you want to receive the webhooks.
2. Set up the webhooks in your Customer Area as described, but select Terminal order update (not Standard webhook) as the webhook type you want to add.
3. Make sure that you accept webhooks.
4. Test and go live.

Webhook content

After you set up the webhook type, you will receive Terminal order updates with:

The next examples show Terminal order updates for shipped orders.

See also