If you were to use Braintree (http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/) for your payment gateway and you got ACH processing, you could collect the funds from customers via your merchant account, then disburse payments via ACH, directly to checking accounts, all via ActiveMerchant. This is exactly what I did in an app similar to yours for photographers: http://www.nextproof.com/ -- Benjamin Curtis http://railskits.com/ - Ready-made Rails code http://catchthebest.com/ - Team-powered recruiting http://www.bencurtis.com/ - Personal blog
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:57 PM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yea, thats what I thought, but I spoke with Authorize.net on the phone > today and they are saying that the only way to distribute the payment > is to go through email receipts by hand. I need an automated way of > transfering these funds to individual checking accounts. > > On Oct 14, 10:28 pm, "Hassan Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:59 PM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... an online art venue where members can each have his/her own > > > online store front. I want to be able to handle credit card > > > transactions in such a way that each member can receive payment for > > > the art that they sell. It seems that most credit card verification > > > sites such as Authorize.net are set up so that you are the > > > storefront. Im wondering what the best route is for managing credit > > > card transactions for an array of storefronts all under your > > > umbrella. > > > > So what's wrong with your having a merchant account, processing > > the payments and distributing the money? > > > > That's what a brick-and-mortar gallery does. And it's a value-add for > > your vendors who don't want to set up a merchant account of their > > own, for whatever reason. Keeping track of who sold what shouldn't > > be too tough :-) > > > > FWIW, > > -- > > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
