[Asterisk-biz] credit card payment

[Michael Giagnocavo]

Depending on the country and the intelligence of the local banks, it might a
real to get a merchant account there. For instance, in Guatemala, you have
to deal with the vile Credomatic people, who are utterly clueless, require a
$5000 deposit, and charge around 8%. Oh, and they provide no API (they send
you a compiled command line program), zero fraud control, and so on. But
they're the only option for Guatemala companies. I'm guessing there are some
countries that are even worse (but hopefully most are better!).

-Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
alex at pilosoft.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:21 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-biz] credit card payment

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

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