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A Weymouth high-street tech shop with smart payments and a brand to match
Sell & Repair is the go-to mobile phone and laptop repair specialist on Weymouth's St Mary Street. We built them a professional brand identity and a card payment setup that keeps the counter moving, every day.
Weymouth's high-street home for mobile phones, laptops, and accessories
Walk down St Mary Street in the heart of Weymouth and you will find Sell & Repair at numbers 27 and 28, a two-window shop that has made itself indispensable to locals and visitors alike. The offer is straightforward but genuinely useful: the team buys and sells mobile phones and laptops, repairs cracked screens and failing devices, and stocks the everyday accessories that people always seem to need in a hurry, from protective cases and portable chargers to earphones and cables.
It is the kind of independent shop that a coastal town depends on. When a tourist's phone takes an unexpected dive on the beach, when a local needs a reliable second-hand handset without the fuss of a carrier contract, or when a student needs their laptop back in working order before a deadline, Sell & Repair is the first call. The business has been built on that reputation for being genuinely helpful, quickly, on the high street.
A trusted shop that needed a look and a payment setup to match its reputation
Sell & Repair had built genuine goodwill on St Mary Street through honest service and fair prices. But two things were holding them back from looking and operating at the level their reputation deserved: a visual identity that did not yet reflect the quality of the work they did, and a payments setup that was creating unnecessary friction at the counter. They came to us wanting both sorted, properly, without fuss.
Branding and visual identity
The shop had credibility where it mattered most, on the counter and in person. What it lacked was a visual identity strong enough to carry that credibility into print, signage, and anywhere a customer might see the name before they walked through the door. We built that from the ground up: a clean, confident brand that says specialist, not generic, and that travels well across every touchpoint from a business card to a shop window.
Card payment solutions
A busy repair counter is not the place for a payment process that slows everything down. Customers want to tap and go, especially when they are picking up a device mid-errands in town. We set up card payment hardware suited to exactly that environment: contactless, chip and PIN, fast, with rates from 0.3% (rates vary by card type and business, confirmed at setup) and a UK support team available seven days a week if anything ever needs looking at.
Brand first, then payments wired in behind it
We started where the business was strongest: the work itself. The branding we developed for Sell & Repair draws on the shop's core strengths: clarity, expertise, and the kind of straightforward confidence that independent specialists earn over years of doing the job well. The palette and typography were chosen to read clearly in a retail window, on a label, or on a receipt, and to look professional without feeling corporate or cold.
Once the brand was in place, we turned to the counter. The card machine we supplied is compact enough not to clutter a busy workspace, and fast enough that a customer picking up a repaired handset or buying a charger can be through the door and on their way in seconds. The setup integrates neatly into the flow of the counter rather than interrupting it. And because everything was sorted through one team, there was no back-and-forth between a branding agency and a separate payments provider. Sell & Repair got both done in one conversation, from one place, with one point of contact.
From concept to print - a brand that travels from shop window to receipt
The visual identity we developed for Sell and Repair was built to work hard across every touchpoint - window signage, business cards, labels, receipts, and digital. A clean, confident look that says specialist without saying corporate. Consistent, print-ready, and theirs to use from day one.
A sharper brand and a counter that takes every payment without a hitch
Sell & Repair now has a visual identity that holds its own alongside any business on Weymouth's high street. The brand travels from the shop front to print and digital without losing consistency, and it reflects the quality and specialism that the team has always delivered in person.
At the counter, card payments run without friction. Customers pay quickly, the queue keeps moving, and the setup simply works day in and day out. Because the card solution and the branding came from the same team, there was no complexity in the handover and no loose ends to chase. That is the practical difference a single partner makes for a shop of this size: less time managing suppliers, more time on the work that earns the reputation.
"A professional brand and a payment setup that just works, sorted together by one team, so we could get on with the shop."
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