Unless paypal has really changed, which I hope not, b/c the entire reason I use paypal is so I KNOW what i am being charged. Paypal is great for ebay, or sending your friend some money. If you can not afford $29/month for a merchant account, I certainly don't want you providing my phone service.
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Subject: RE: [Asterisk-biz] credit card payment
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Preston Garrison Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-biz] credit card payment
We pay $29.95 for our merchant account and less then $50 for startup fees.
In the U.S., sure. The OP is NOT in the U.S. and does not have a U.S. bank account.
Any reputable business should not have just one merchant account but TWO.
Arguably, this is true.
I don't know about you, but having my phones cut
off because i didn't go to my paypal account and add more funds to my account doesn't sound like a good idea.
Re-read the thread. PayPal has not had this requirement for several months now.
I want my phone company to charge my card every month for what I owe, so I don't have to worry about that. You can exactly do that with any of those billing services.
Let's compare apples to apples, shall we?
A flat rate monthly telephone service certainly should offer the customer the option choosing to have his credit card charged automatically each month. PayPal does NOT offer recurring billing.
Then there's the traditional post-paid billing situation; you pay for what you used in the last billing period. Again, to support this, in a manner that would not require the customer to actively cause this payment to happen, one would need a conventional merchant account.
A pre-paid VOIP billing arrangement(where calls are charged against this pre-paid account) is probably more common, at least in the circles that frequent this list. Such a setup does not lend itself to recurring billing. PayPal would be a good fit in this situation.
Look, I'm not a PayPal evangelist. Far from it. While the PayPal brand is close to becoming a household name, there's just something "less-than" about a business that uses somebody else to collect their revenue. But for certain businesses, particularly the shoe-string start-up operation, it is a perfectly servicable choice. Ideal? No, but it get's the job done, and getting money from our customers is what we're in business for in the first place, right?
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