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Re: Accepting cards online

James Balmain — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:16:30 -0000

Hi Steven,

We're integrating paypal into our billing system in Q1 next year.

Re: Accepting cards online

Stephen Dooley — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:36:38 -0000

Hi James,

I'd be happy to speak with you regarding PayPal's Merchant Services. We offer very competitive merchant rates for card processing & in addition have over 15 million account holders in the UK at present.

Forrester Research have released several surveys with two very interesting articles covering European online buyers and UK online buyers. Each will show that adding PayPal as an alternative payment option will open your business to more online buyers and increase your sales. These are readily available online.

We can offer PayPal as an additional payment method alongside your current payments processor, or with Website Payments Pro, we can process your Credit & Debit cards in addition to our standard service.

If you have any questions drop me a mail I'll forward my contact details.

Regards,
Stephen Dooley

Re: Accepting cards online

Rob Harrison — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:33:56 -0000

You may be interested to look at a Nochex Merchant account at: http://www.nochex.com/merch...

You can withdraw your recieved money instantly - (takes three working days - the same as a bank transfer). Rates are the same as PayPal and the support is much better and without the stigma.

Get in touch if you need any more info.

Regards,

Rob.

Re: Accepting cards online

James Balmain — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:49:42 -0000

Hi Jonathan, thanks for the kind words. We're talking to HSBC now and have hopefully got a deal going with Barclays to sort this out. So fingers crossed!

Re: Accepting cards online

Jonathan Adams — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:09:26 -0000

Hi James

We are now running on 3 day deal with HSBC using Protx, our old bank tried the 30 days trick so we left. HSBC are worth a call or Lloyds TSB.

Good luck

Re: Accepting cards online

James Balmain — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:27:54 -0000

Mark, yes we're looking into this now. We're going to contact a few more aquiring banks and go from there.

Paul, we're actually using protx for our online clearing, but sadly this doesn't get around the need for a merchant account with a clearing bank.

Re: Accepting cards online

PaulLomax — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:22:02 -0000

Barclays are bloody awful... They were at the bottom of The Guardian's ethical companies list at the weekend.

Have you considered a service such as http://www.protx.co.uk/ ?

Re: Accepting cards online

Mark Brown — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:14:24 -0000

Hi James,

Have you thought about looking at other providers? I do alot of work with cycle retailers - very similar profile to outdoor retailers - and we offer them a very competitive package via HSBC. the entire card processing area is really competitive these days so its worth talking to others because you don't have to get your processing from your bank.

Here's some stats you might find interesting:

P.S: "IBD" means independent bike dealer.

P.P.S: really enjoyed following your progress and best of luck with the launch.