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Re: C.Card payments
hotpnt wrote:Thanks k, do you have any links to the internet online terminal please?
It was all included in the links I gave you above, but anyway here you go: –
Re: C.Card payments
No that’s the merchant scheme thing Martin.
What you want it this: http://www.protx.com/
Steamline will process the transactions through the virtual terminal and then pay them to your account, daily. It’s as good as taking the cash to be honest.
I’d suspect that all you’d need is the £20 a month one for most people unless you will trip over the 1000 transactions per quarter but PROTX do change the billing scheme if you go above that automatically.
Streamline charge a percentage on every transaction but other than acting as a clearing service they don’t do much more than that or not that I am aware of. I know they provide hard terminals and they operate the World Pay service but I don’t know how good that is.
What I do know is that PROTX is cheap and easy to use as well as being ideal to use in the field for engineers. I know this because we use it for the online store and for taking telephone orders and it’s saved us masses of time over using terminals. Cheaper than the damn terminals as well by a country mile.
So saved us loads of time and money in short.
If you’re an FSB member, phone up Streamline and tell them, the percentage charge drops considerably as well. 😉
If you use a laptop in the field anyway to look up spares etc. then, TBH, its a no-brainer in many ways and, if you don’t, it’s a compelling argument to do so. Although I am working on something with this. 😉
HTH
K.
Re: C.Card payments
ok, so just to clarify, i would need a streamline merchant account first, then apply to protx?
Yes, correct.
You have to pay for the ability to take CC payments and then the method by which you do that on top. :rolls:
K.
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Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of all the engineers having to have their own equipment and accounts in order to take cards, ‘someone’ – for arguments sake say UKW, ran a service for us all to take cards by way of a quick call with a customers credit card details.
The ‘someone’ could then send the engineer the payment (less their processing fee) 😕Probably daft of me to think of something like this so I’ll get ready to be shot down :rolls:
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Not at all Martin.
I did briefly consider it a few months back as it is a repeating subject on here but I suspect that the cost would negate the benefit sadly doing it solely by telephone as it does take time. Then you have to sort out the paperwork and accountancy at the back end of it. 😕
That’s not to say it’s dead in the water, it just requires more thought.
K.
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