International Receive/Sending Payment

Easy sending & receiving of payment

[William_W]

Hi,

I need advice on being able to send/receive payment for customers/suppliers anywhere in the world. Need a good solution for my customers who come from places where even PayPal doesn't do business with.

Checked out StormPay, but payment to people outside of US is a little too slow for some supplier's liking.

Any other alternatives? Thanks.

[tschild]

For buying things from the US (I'm in Germany) credit card payment has always been the only option for me - checks not accepted, , cash too unsafe.

Crediting a check drawn on a non-EU bank to my bank account would also have a high overhead cost. Ditto for bank transfers.

Do credit card merchant accounts include the possibility to credit money to a credit card when it's not a case of returning a previous payment?

[Sunshyn]

tschild: I think that's usually prohibited in the contract when a merchant signs up for their account. I know that it was specifically mentioned as not being allowed in our contract.

[johnafrid]

Try Eurogiro. A simple google search would take you to their website. A large number of post offices and other Eurogiro agencies here get together to make cross border transactions easier.

[antirack]

We are in retail sales, 100% of our sales are international to 100+ countries.

- Credit Card accounts for 80% of our orders

- PayPal is the next big thing

- Bank payments account for another large fraction (we are established since the 90's, so our customers trust us to pay in advance)

- We do maintain local bank accounts in Australia and important European countries (can be opened remotely, very cheap, also held under our owners private name to make the paperwork easier).

- Western Union is popular for South American poeple, but also used by some dealers.

- We also registered moneybookers.com, paymate.com.au, nochex and maybe some other stuff I can't recall now. There are a few transactions all the time.

With all of this you can send money too (except Credit Card, if it's not a refund).

Hope that helps.

[Essex_boy]

I use western Union - touch pricey but the transfer is instant and I mean instant.

Check them out.

[caine]

Bank transfers and credit cards. Most of our non demostic business is conducted via this means. And that includes Europe, America's, Austrialiasia, and the Africa contenents.