I highly recommend you check out Braintree Payments for your gateway and merchant account solution. Last year I implemented virtual good purchases for an online game, and they were an absolute pleasure to work with. Great developer documentation and great support.
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > You might want to read the Wiki page on Merchant Accounts and how they > function. You would not directly accept orders on your website to your bank > account or banking institution like BofA, Well Fargo, etc. You must go > through an intermediate payment gateway. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_account > > I would actually recommend you look into using some of the larger merchant > systems like Authorize.net (http://www.authorize.net/), LinkPoint > (http://www.firstdata.com/linkpoint/), PayPal, etc. In the Merchant Account > industry you don't really want to work with a smaller system as they tend to > have fewer options for integration with your platform as well as more > security issues. > > These are my opinions. I'm sure there are others on this list who have more > extensive ecomm knowledge. > > P- > > > On May 10, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Chadwick Wood wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Perhaps slightly off-topic, but I'm wondering if any of you that have done a >> good bit of e-commerce have any recommendations for merchant account >> providers. Ideally it would be a local institution (and not one of the big >> chains... Chase, BofA, etc.), but I'm open to any suggestions if the service >> is good. Right now I have a company bank account through a credit union, >> but they don't directly offer merchant accounts. >> >> I'm sure some of you must have some advice on this! >> >> Thanks, >> Chadwick Wood >> http://coffeeshopped.com/ >> >> -- >> Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Refresh Austin" group. >> >> [ Posting ] >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy >> We do not accept job posts from recruiters. >> >> [ Unsubscribe ] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> >> [ More Info ] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin > > -- > Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Refresh Austin" group. > > [ Posting ] > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy > We do not accept job posts from recruiters. > > [ Unsubscribe ] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > [ More Info ] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin > -- Larry Kubin -- Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin
