[asterisk-biz] International DID provider and wholesale A-Z termination and Dedicated servers supporting moneybooker

[C.Savinovich]

>>> regarding wire transfers here in pakistan, it takes time and I have to
visit bank personally

 

  I straight can't believe you that in Pakistan you have to visit a bank
personally to make an international wire transfer.  It is just not possible
that in this date and age banks don't allow international wire transfers
from their portals.  Pakistan is too big of a country for that. unless it is
specifically blocked for anti-terrorist reasons.  And even so, how can
thousands of businesses in Pakistan function if they don't have that feature
available?

 

CS

 

 

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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Nasir Iqbal
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:02 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] International DID provider and wholesale A-Z
termination and Dedicated servers supporting moneybooker

 

Thanks for feedback , 

Just planning to start voip business and  regarding wire transfers here in
pakistan, it takes time and I have to visit bank personally so just looking
an alternative payment methods 

Regards

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
wrote:

On 08/13/2010 05:16 PM, Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 17:04 -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:
>> On 08/13/2010 04:49 PM, Bret McDanel wrote:
>>
>>> It is weird that there is a higher processing overhead for a paper check
>>> (cheque to people on other continents) yet that incurs no cost whereas a
>>> wire has much lower processing overhead and its often much more
>>> expensive.  Almost like people in this country are being steered to use
>>> the ACH system one way or the other.
>
>> As a tiny company, we really can't afford to do it any other way, from
>> a cash flow perspective.  I'm sure there are many others here in the
>> same boat.
>
>
> That is a different issue

I agree with your points about ACH vs. wire.  However, I don't think
this is really a different issue, from the vantage point of the
overall topic we're discussing.

The cash flow constraints of (very?) small businesses often engender
an experience of paper checks as a high-cost, high-overhead, high-PITA
phenomenon in ways that are economically irrational from a purely
quantitative perspective.

But the incentives are very different with a small company than a
midsize or large one.  Larger companies don't really operate directly
from cash;  expenses are paid from revolving credit facilities or
reserves, and in any case, without particular regard to cash income at
any given moment per se.  Revenue and expenses are somewhat abstracted
from each other, rather than being tightly coupled in a time-sensitive
way.  Bills are paid and payments are collected on more or less 30 day
terms, and sometimes much more than that, and from a financial
governance perspective, accrual is what matters.

So, it's almost as if the entire process of concrete money actually
changing hands per se were a minor technicality, rather than a central
theme of the company's ability to continue operating.  Everyone will
eventually get their checks in the mail, and the schedule on which
that happens is largely a function of process and accounting people's
workflow on both sides.  Neither side is overly concerned about it, as
long as the payment is made at some point within the required terms,
in principle.  The ability to keep the lights on isn't a function of
the contents of the treasure chest except in the broadest sense possible.

The point - and what makes it relevant to this discussion - is that
the economics of transacting payment depend on who you're dealing
with, and mainly their size.


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