[Hidden-tech] Solution Needed - Specialized Acceptance of Credit Cards

[Marcia Yudkin]

American Express has a new Paypal-like program called Serve that I signed up for, but it turns out it doesn't fit my needs because most of the customers who need to use a program like that are Canadian.  At the time I signed up, they had a promotion where the first year would be free of fees.  They might still have that promotion on because I don't think they've publicized this program very well yet.

Sorry that I don't have a link for you but you should be able to find it with the info above.

Incidentally, Canada is way ahead of this on this front because their banks have a program where anyone can email anyone else money and I believe it has no fees as long as both sides have an account in one of the member banks.

Marcia Yudkin
www.yudkin.com
Goshen

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From: Seth Fischer <seth at woodpelletprice.com>
Subject: [Hidden-tech] Solution Needed - Specialized Acceptance of Credit Cards
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Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 7:06 AM

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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

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