A paypal alternative?
I need to find a paypal alternative because paypal is making me angry. I hate them! I was hoping someone could give me some good information of a alternative to paypal that would allow me to invoice people via email and allow customers to make payments online via credit/debitcards or their paypal, google accounts without me having to have those memberships to receive the payments? I am a small business so I don’t want a merchant account because it costs hundreds of dollars to maintain a merchant account and I don’t make that much to need something like that. I like invoicing via email and receiving payments into an account I can transfer to my bank but paypal has too many issues and causes to many headaches and takes too much money. Anyone know of a great alternative?
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3 comments
vicseo on July 6, 2009 at 4:57 am
What ever happened with "cash and carry" for payment of customer accounts. It’s a simple concept which involves providing a downloadable order form [usually in a PDF] at your website, in which you allow customers to pay by personal checks, money orders, cashier checks, traveler checks, etc. And include on the order form the following language: "All merchandise orders are subject to supply on hand which will be sent upon customary bank clearance of customer payment(s) to our order/account."
This simple "cash and carry" approach avoids NSFs and third party credit card arbitrations and complaint resolution since you are the holder in due course of these negotiable instruments … so any complaining customer has to deal with you directly, not thru a third party intervenor.
Good luck!
Margo A on July 6, 2009 at 4:57 am
Have you tried SunTrust? They charge a fee to set it up and then it is free for unlimited usage. That’s what we use.
PerfectPress on July 6, 2009 at 4:57 am
have you try http://www.e-junkie.com/ as there statement,"E-junkie provides shopping cart and buy now buttons to let you sell downloads and tangible goods on your website, eBay, MySpace, Google Base, CraigsList and other websites using PayPal Standard, PayPal Pro, Google Checkout, Authorize.Net, TrialPay, ClickBank and 2CheckOut."
I think you should try that out