Re: legalities of encryption - Emailing info

Dixie,

I've been skimming your posts and I completely understand your questions. I 
work with a non-profit that just started taking memberships on-line -- so 
new, that it's still in preview or I'd send you the link.

If this is just a one-time deal and the club does not currently have a 
shopping cart or merchant account, check out PayPal's business accounts 
with WebAccept. They sign up for an account and you put a button on the 
site. The discount rate is 1.9-percent and someone does have to go into 
PayPal to request the funds be electronically transferred to the club's 
account. This service avoids the shopping cart/merchant account issue since 
PayPal handles it on their secure servers. Since you are looking into 
setting something up for conventions, I believe you may want to investigate 
this one.

Also, for what I call baby eCommerce where the club has a merchant account 
(make sure their bank knows this is going on-line, some banks get a little 
nervous about using their accounts for something other than was originally 
intended), you may also want to look at http://www.mals-e.com/ -- I've used 
his *shopping cart* service and it took a bit to get it working right, but 
has been a big help for a client I have that is not far enough into 
eCommerce for her own shopping cart program. Plus, it was easy for me to 
learn.

Good luck!
Tamara


At 04:54 PM 8/14/00 -0500, Dixie wrote:
>Is there a place to learn how all this works together and what I need to set
>up ecommerce?  I have a club that would like to be able to take credit card
>information for their conventions.
>
>Dixie
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Wilson" <webgooru(at)gte.net>
>Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 5:38 PM
>
> > Dixie,
> >
> > The answer is yes and no.  They said they had a "locked" form, but used an
> > unsecure email with raw credit card data in it.  This might present an
> > appearance to the customer of being secure, but the customers CC data is
>now
> > being sent by ordinary email to the retailer.
>

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