[Asterisk-biz] credit card payment

[Danny Froberg]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 13:21 -0500, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Rusty Shackleford wrote:
> 
> > You should explore PayPal. Their merchant offerings are much better than
> > even 12 months ago. For example, they no longer require credit card
> > users (your customers) to register and set up a PayPal account. Other
> > improvements have been made to their API that have eliminated most of
> > the annoying issues that many on-line merchants have had with PayPal.
> Why don't you stop being a lemonade stand operation and get a real 
> merchant account?
> 
> Why would a customer trust you when you only accept paypal payments? Its 
> instant sign of "hello, I am very small and I can't even afford to bother 
> setting up a merchant account".
> 
> 
> -alex

Heh.. you're clearly a Yankee,
Setting up merchant accounts outside the US is a tad trickier that you
would think, but there are options but most of them a terrifically
expensive.

Paypal is an option and people do trust them.

So for a small operation where the initial startup costs are an issue,
it's definitely the way to go, until he can afford the full monty.

/Danny