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A few questions:
1. I have a site where I want to sell a lot of products, I need to know if there is a way for me to accept payments such as with a company like paysystems but have MY company name appear on the bill not theirs? I fear if I don't have this will confuse a great many of my users. I would prefer not to store cc data on my end of things and have the process automated.
2. Can I easily correlate sales with adwords purchases and if so what scripts are you using to nail down keywords that lead to sales.
3. What other companies exist that will put my company name on the charges instead of using theirs for payment processing?
The one remotely hosted credit card processor (that also hosts the cart and database) that I have had most experience with is CCNOW - (http://www.ccnow.com) I have several clients who use them and they seem to like them. (They do not charge any setup fees, but a monthly fee, and over a certain level of transactions a percentage of the gross processed - it's a fairly high percentage, but with no setup fees, you get what you pay for.) I am not sure if they actually put the online store's name on the charge though. I'm sure their site can give you more details.
For most of my clients who require merchant accounts and merchant gateways for their shopping carts, I recommend Authorize.net highly. The cost of setting up a merchant account/gateway is coming down; (a mere 6 years ago you could easily spend over a $1000 setting one up, and nowadays, you can get a very good one, using Authorize.net as gateway and Wells Fargo as Account holding bank for a setup fee of only $149.)
If at all possible, it's best to have YOUR OWN merchant account, if you can afford it, so that you have access to merchant's virtual terminal and can have more control over the look and feel of both your site's integration with it, as well as how your billing receipts will read.
In the end it depends on the amount of funds available for initial setup of these interfaces, and if you have the cash, I say go for your own account, rather than using a third party processor like CCNOW or PayPal. As a matter of course, I never recommend PayPal, since the interface requires that the purchase must be a member as well as the seller. It's a good way to encourage people to abandon your cart. The only situation in which I would recommend PayPal as a payment interface would be if it was in conjuction with a regular credit card gateway, and it would simply be another option for those few purchasers who DO already have a PayPal account.
Hope you find this helpful...
