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Credit Card Processing
tjbeaulieu
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I`m still struggling to get through the startup process. I would love to hear all of your suggestions and advice in setting up credit card processing on my website and for my local storefront. Any particular vendor you might recommend? I truly appreciate all of your responses. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Theresa B
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We chose not to use Google checkout, because the customer has to go to Google before they even hit our shopping cart, and we also cannot require or ask the customer to log in to our site. So we have no order traceability if the customer calls in with a question. Well we can, but it will be a long paper trail. It`s a shame, because they were very inexpensive.
For our credit card merchant, we chose Authorize.net with Dharma Merchant Services as our reseller. Initially we chose a different vendor, but they were not forthcoming about their rates, so we canceled and went with Dharma. They have excellent rates and they are a small business, so we always get great customer service. They`ve been most helpful.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Jennifer
I am not the reseller, but you can see who I use at www.dharmamerchantservices.com . They can answer any question for you, and go over rates. The monthly service is not high, so maybe it could be cost effective for you. If you have any more questions for me, you can also email me at info@ ifancyfood.com and I will answer all I can.
Jennifer
You can also use a virtual terminal like Virtual Merchant which runs on your PC and uses an inexpensive credit card stripe reader that hooks up to your PC`s USB port.
Very elegant ecommerce shop, BTW. Makes me hungry just looking at it.
@Ruksana
But for festivals, art fairs, flea markets and farmers markets, what is really cool is that you can get a wireless credit card processing terminal.
Your shop is cute. But you need to do some search engine optimization. Change the Titles of your pages so that they reflect the unique contents of each page. Also make sure your META description and keywords are about the products on the page. Put some keywords in the headings on each page, in links on each page and in the `alt` tag of the images on each page.
Doing these things will help your search engine traffic a lot over the next few months.
I do have a question about the wireless terminal - it runs on wi-fi, but if the festival I am at does not have wi-fi available, is there an alternate method for it to work? I haven`t done any festivals, but we might try some out next year.
Here is a nifty little demo of how it works:
Wireless Credit Card Processing with WAYMerchantProf10/18/2008 6:19 PM
Sorry it took me so long to get back to your question.
A merchant can have a seasonal merchant account if their business is only active for part of the year. The wireless service is $20 a month, and this fee is paused along with the merchant account at the end of the season. If you have an ongoing business at a retail location where you don`t want to stop processing for the season, you could use two merchant accounts and pause one in the off season.
The VX610 shown on our site can be purchased new for less than a thousand dollars, perhaps as low as $900, though I have heard of them selling for $2100. Depends on who you get it from.
Also, note that the demo I linked to shows a different product–a WAY systems product–Not the VX610. I hear that tech support is better for the VX610 product as it is offered through Elavon.
Yes, I think I must have been talking to Ruksana.
keep those sticks smoking,
Tim
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