How do you accept credit cards

[starvin]

My name is Jeffery Beale and I have just started a web
page design company. I have a few set backs that I need help with. The most important is how to exept credit cards. I have a discover merhant account and they said that if I get a terminal I can accept all major cards. Can I use a virtual terminal provided through a web host. I also looked into 3rd party billing. None that I emailed contacted me back. I felt they were product oriented
and not service geared. Do anyone know of a good online billing company or software for web page designers. I am being hosted right now by Cox cable but will I need a web host that has e-commerce capability or is there a free service that offers that that I can link my commerce page to. Since I am starting out and don't have a lot of money for investment I am trying to go with the least amount of monthly overhead so if there are free or low cost providers and services please provide me the link. I thank you.

 

[Javrix]

There's a lot of sites that provide this service. Most of them also secure the transaction also. Hope this helps:

http://www.ibill.com

http://www.ccbill.com

http://www.paypal.com

~Javrix

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[foxdev]

I've done a lot of research in this area in the past two months. The best I've seen (price, flexibility, etc) so far seem to be:

* CardService Int'l (but they had a technical glitch when taking my order - not a good sign)

* Total Merchant Services (seems to be actually run by humans)

Expect $100 - $300 in startup costs (app fees, mostly). Robert Bradley

http://www.lowcostprints.com

http://www.foxdev.com

 

[Javrix]

But I thought you already had a merchant account. The links I posted earlier is if you already have a merchant account. They don't charge any setup fee's or monthly fee's, just a $.02 per transaction. Each one is different. The ones I posted earlier are for you to accept credit cards online. They just provide the database function and deposit function for you. ~Javrix

A broken clock is correct twice per day.

A roomful of monkeys on typwriters will eventually write the great american novel.

If you gave an infinate number of rednecks, an infinate number of shotguns to shoot at an infinate number of stree

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks for the help. I do have a merchants account with Discover. When I checked with these companies well one of them I was checking without using my merchant account number. I will try them again. Thanks