Re: Credit Card processing

if you live in the USA it's simple, as they load a USA form, even if you =
preload the address including the country!=20

there's a link called "outside US" next to the zip code or similar, if =
they can find it and click it,  then it's easy. 99% of people who tried =
to pay and where from outside the US gave up trying, paypal don't seem =
interested in changing this or listening to any of the other suggestions =
i made to them either.

I'd get a proper merchant account the charges are not that great, i set =
one up in the uk for a non-profit, the advantages of a real merchant =
account are you have full control, if your talking over $1000 a =
transaction then the cost will be low as fee's are based on yearly $s =
processed.

I liked  http://www.echo-inc.com/merchant_america.html=20
they have a php library so you can write your own transaction processing =
system. as i don't have a US bank account i couldn't try them out. (the =
Monthly Fee  is only charged if you process a transaction.)

BTW as you're in the usa, then the fees are lower than elsewhere in the =
world where the market is more regulated. we had to pay =A3300 set-up =
and 5% and also find a payment processing provider which costs again. =
but we still made the money back in less than one month from people who =
couldn't pay with paypal and where still interested. overall the cost =
isn't much more then with paypal and the majority of our takings for =
membership fee's are online.

Best Wishes

Paul Roberts
mail at Paul-Roberts dot com
----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Susan Duncan" <sduncan(at)malico.com>
To: "Nate Harel" <nharel(at)nettech-services.net>
Cc: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: Credit Card processing


Nate,

Actually they don't have to do much to 'sign up', certainly no worse=20
that the process they'd have to go through to use any third party credit =

card processing system I've seen.  I actually set up an account for one=20
of our companies and tried out some of their services, both from the=20
customer side and the company side and I must say that I've been pretty=20
impressed.=20

Nate Harel wrote:

> Hi Darrell,
>
> I had considered Paypal, however, my issue with them is that they=20
> require you to sign up with them and have an account with them in=20
> order to use the services. I want to give our members an easy painless =

> path to donate or pay dues. Asking them to set up an account with=20
> paypal is not acceptable, unfortunately.
>
> Nate
>
>
> At 7/27/2003 12:40 PM, Darrell King wrote:
> =3D" "
>
>> PayPal?
>>
>> http://paypal.com
>>
>> D
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Nate Harel" <nharel(at)nettech-services.net>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, I am looking for an alternative solution which is low cost =
(ie.
>> little or no monthly payment) and low charges for each transaction.
>>
>> Any ideas/suggestions?
>
>
>
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