3rd Party merchant Account/Gateway

Merchant Accounts

[freespirit]

Yes I know it has been handled before however, in my case I really would like to get your advice.
1. I am based in europe (EU member)

2. I am starting a little online shop with a maximum of 10 products ranging in price of 10-15 euros, meaning the average purchase per customer might be 25 euros, so not a lot.... however I want a reliable and good 3rd party merchant account/gateway.......

3 I do want to keep cost reasonable (Worldpay might be to expensive....or are they open to negotiation about this).

4. What about paysystems.... but can you accept payments over phone with them (ie. taking informaton carddetails/address details and input them myself)....

Please give me some advice I have been searching the net for days and going mental.......

thanks

[bekyed]

Hello Freespirit,

A few good recommendations as we use these ourselves are secpay.com and protx.com.
You will need a merchant accout for both of these but they are very reliable and not too expensive.
You can use their online order form to take phone orders and payments very easily.

Another way which is very inexpensive is to use actinic catalog software with their inbuilt encryption www.actinic.com which is highly secure and recommended by most high street banks and works well for some of our smaller ecommerce sites.

Bek.

[Mr Bo Jangles]

There are 3rd party processors that offer rates a LOT cheaper than the above post mentioned.

Do just an hour's research.

Start with those listed at
online-payment-processing.com

and move on from there.