[FX.php List] [OT]Accepting Credit Card Payments

[Derrick Fogle]

Why not use PayPal for this?

On Apr 15, 2006, at 5:09 AM, Marisa Smith wrote:

> I'm looking into accepting credit card payments by my own clients,  
> and am trying to find a good, low-cost solution for just a few  
> transactions per year, and it has to WORK WITH A MAC.  I have had  
> several people I know recommend using Quickbooks, which I already  
> use for my accounting, but it is not available in the Macintosh  
> version of Quickbooks.  I also looked at the eAuthorize plugin from  
> Waves In Motion for FMSA, but it is also only for Windows.
>
> I'm really only thinking of offering this because of a few payment  
> delays I've had working with educational institutions that have a  
> complex PO/check-cutting process.  In some cases, it's taken me  
> hours of effort to coordinate payment of a simple invoice, that I  
> could have just had charged to their Purchasing Card.  Most of the  
> merchant accounts out there seem geared to high-volume point of  
> sale businesses, so I wondered if anyone could point me in the  
> right direction for a low-volume solution?  I'd rather have a  
> personal recommendation from people with similar business interests  
> to start with since I came up with thousands of hits when I did a  
> google search.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Marisa
>
> P.S.  I'm not looking to integrate this with my own website,  
> although I'm not against that idea.  For the number of times I  
> would use this, I'm just as happy to write their number down, login  
> somewhere, and hand-enter the transaction for processing.
>
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> DataSmith Consulting, LLC
> 9206 Huron River Drive
> Dexter, MI 48130
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Derrick Fogle
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