# Record your own card terminal

Add the name of an external card terminal so POS can record which one took a payment

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Category: payments
Last updated: 2026-11-08T15:00:00Z

# Record your own card terminal

If your business takes cards on a terminal of its own, from any provider, record it here. A payment taken by **Own card reader** can then say which terminal took it, and the shift report totals each terminal. Naayya does not connect to the terminal and receives nothing from it. It keeps the name you give it.

1. Open the sales point the terminal is used at in **Admin > Settings > Point of sale**, select **Add device** and choose **Card reader** as the **Device type**. A business without sales points adds it under **Devices at** its location.
2. Under **Brand and connection**, choose **Own card reader (no connection)**. You can type the terminal's make under **Model (optional)**.
3. Enter a **Name** staff will recognise, such as "Bar terminal". Under **Place**, keep the sales point, or choose **Shared by every sales point here** for a terminal every sales point at that location uses.
4. Select **Save device**. There is no connection to choose and nothing to test.

The terminal shows **Own card reader** and **No connection needed**. Staff see it the next time they take a payment by **Own card reader**. See [Say which terminal took a card payment](/help-center/point-of-sale#payment-methods-say-which-terminal-took-a-card-payment).

You can rename, move or disconnect a terminal at any time. Payments it has already taken keep the name it had when they were taken. A disconnected terminal is no longer offered at the till.