Comments on: Get Client Payments by Credit Card

By: Merchant Accounts Express

Merchant Accounts Express — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:00:30 +0000

Do you find more people are inclined to trust a checkout page on a relatively unknown website versus paypal? Do you suggest the use of security badges from your SSL provider or those premium badges such as Truste for Verisign?

By: Brandilyn

Brandilyn — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:01:50 +0000

bfrP0e Good point. I hadn’t tohguht about it quite that way. :)

By: igreenspot

igreenspot — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:42:53 +0000

personally I would pick 2checkout.com instead of paypal. Using paypal can danger your money since anyone can raise a dispute, which make your paypal account frozen by the vendor.

By: Merchant Account Services

Merchant Account Services — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:51:12 +0000

I like the free cart service from Mal’s, which is easy to set up and use, but many others are available, like Virtual Cart.

- That is the best advice I have seen so far. thanks

By: Matthew Hunt

Matthew Hunt — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:36:05 +0000

I have been involved in the payment processing industry for over 4 years now in Canada, working closely with small business owners and I found that there can be a lot of miss leading information on the internet for people, particularly for Canadians.

I do think PayPal is a great starting point for someone who is testing a site out or only processing a few transactions a month, but anyone building a serious business will require ‘true merchant accounts’ for their business. 2Checkout is also good, but their rates are vary high if you plan on having a substantial business volume. The higher your business volume the more important capturing a low discount rate will matter.

Regardless, accepting credit cards is a good thing and will help just about any business make more sales – so if you are not currently accepting some type of credit card processing then paypal might a good place to get your feet wet, since their is no contracts, etc.

If anyone is looking for quality information on how to set-up Canadian Merchant Accounts and payment processing services click here.

Thanks Tara for the blog post and getting the conversation moving forward on this topic!

By: Scranton Web Design

Scranton Web Design — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:47:14 +0000

That was a great article. We are a new business looking to find the fastest way to get paid and easiest for our clients. Thanks.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:11:54 +0000

That was a great article. It comes down to convenience with the customers payment methods.

By: st1905

st1905 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:49:28 +0000

Hmm.I`m using paypal to accept credit card payments but it seems that gg check out is not as good as it has so many problems with the lack of chargeback function.

By: speery

speery — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:09:50 +0000

I forgot to mention that using ProPay you can process via a virtual terminal (online), using any touch-tone telephone (including cell phones), or via email invoice. PayPal does offer a similar virtual terminal but it costs $20 a month regardless of whether you process or not.

I should also clarify that ProPay’s processing fees are fixed so it’s easy to track how much you’re really paying.