Re: Not sure if this is the right place, but here goes!

Bryan -

Thanks for the swift response!

> My company is the domain registry for almost 500 .us domains.  We
also
> do registrations in .com, et al.  We put a link on our invoices to
use
> Paypal's webaccept whih allowed us to accept credit cards and  kept
us
> from having to get the SSL and merchant account.  Although 99.5% of
my
> recievables come in by check.

Mine are either cheque (UK spelling, lol!) of cash, depending on the
customer. I'm not set up for credit cards, as they charge too much
commission over here to be worth-while for me, at present. My client,
while feeling the same way, is, however, looking at the option of a
merchant account, in case other options don't work out.

> When Paypal initiated their new policy of putting the number of
times
> you have used the service in public view, this showed the world (and
my
> customers) that I had only accepted about a dozen payments by
Paypal.

Ouch. This I was NOT aware of. BIG downside. Thanks for the heads-up.

> Keep in mind that there is no place on the screen that states that
I've
> only used them for a few months, nor that almost everyone pays me by
> check.

So noted: Thanks.

> This could let my clients, mostly city governments, to suddenly
think
> I'm a small-time, little baby company.  My reputation is far more
> imporant than that.

Agreed.

> We went and got a merchant account from Charge.com which uses
> Authorize.net.
http://www.charge.com/banners/clicks.php?id=adma95648

Hmm. There are other similar services out there, IIRC, and some of
them may well be more UK-centred; thanks for the idea.

> We did pay the $195 to get the Virtual Terminal to manually type in
the
> credit cards ourselves (we purchased it, although you can lease it
also)
> and the Real Time gateway interface.  also included in this is a
> WebAccept ability also, so we can still put a link on our invoices,
and
> still have no immediate need to spend the $150 to get a SSL
certificiate.

That's a nice bonus!

> So we went on a did it.  We will add the SSL later.

Makes a certain amount of sense!

> You can link there from our Domain Registration site at
> http://www.worlddom.net

Thanks.

All good points, and I thank you for the other ideas as well; I'll get
back to you, if I may, if anything arises from this?

Again, thanks for the swift reply!

Best regards,

Roger Stenning
Proprietor,
Intelligent Web Design Services
http://iws.n3.net/
(PGP public key available on request)
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