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Just use PayPal. I've been using them for years with zero problems. Their fees work out to be about the same as I'd pay for a merchant account, but without all
by bcl 16y ago
Just use PayPal. I've been using them for years with zero problems. Their fees work out to be about the same as I'd pay for a merchant account, but without all the development hassle. There is also a new player on the block, http://www.gunpal.com http://www.gunpal.com, which I'm looking to add as an option just on principle -- they don't discriminate based on what you are selling or buying like PayPal does.
- seanharper 16y agoPaypal has a pretty high per-item fee of 0.30 / transaction and a reasonably low (and fixed!!) percentage fee of 2.2%-2.9%. Therefore, if you have an abnormally large average transactions size OR get paid mostly by other businesses, with their business cards OR have an abnormally large share of amex transactions, paypal will be more appealing from a cost perspective than it otherwise would be. At TransFS.com we include them in the auction results because the answer of how paypal compares in price is actually different depending on your situation.
- bcl 16y agoThat's true. My transactions aren't small ($250+) so the per-transaction fee isn't a huge part of the cost.
- billswift 16y agoAccording to this site, http://www.merchantaccountblog.com/1027/a-comparison-of-3-alternative-payment-methods http://www.merchantaccountblog.com/1027/a-comparison-of-3-al... , which was linked from the original article, the Google and Amazon payment systems have the same fees as PayPal.
- checkvantage 16y agoCheckVantage offers a cost effective solution for electronic checks.