The hot new payment service right now is https://stripe.com/ but it needs to be integrated in your website by a developer. Fees are just part of the game, and PayPal's are not out of line - regardless of payment gateway you'll be paying a similar percentage, so you need to account for that in your pricing. Best of luck, ~Noah -- Noah W. Smith *Common Media, Inc. *| 30 Olive Street, Suite 1, Greenfield MA 01301 | desk: 413-259-6777 | cell: 413-320-1605 | commonmediainc.com On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Seth Fischer <seth at woodpelletprice.com>wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > Good morning all, > > I have a growing online business selling BBQ Wood Pellets used in BBQ > pellet grills across the U.S.. The size of the orders is quarter, half, and > full-ton increments, which means that the shipping portion of each order is > custom and potentially very pricey (in the hundreds of dollars). Total > customer invoices are generally between $500-$900. After finalizing the > pricing with the customer, I email PayPal Invoices, which is incredibly > easy, but the fees are really eating away at the profit. > > I have spoken with a few credit card processors and they haven't been able > to come up with an equivalent solution. > > As an aside, I actually like that the customer does not process payment > directly on my web-site. > > Does anyone out there have any suggestions on a way to email invoices that > can be easily paid via credit card. Total sales were about $35-$40,000 in > 2012 and i could see that tripling this year. > > Thank you very much, > > Seth Fischer > BBQPelletsOnline.com > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20130102/c2a69f90/attachment.html