Accepting money order

[Raymond]

I did a survey on my visitors about what payment options they prefer. Turned out money order and "cash" are right up there along with credit card. I realize it could involve alot of "manual labour" work. Any of you have a system in place for accepting money order and cash?

[bcc1234]

On the checkout payment screen, we have an option to pay offline, which means the order is on hold until we receive a check.

In the e-mail receipt, we include a duplicate of instructions on where to send a check or a money order, and have a responser reminding the customer to mail a check if we haven't recevied it in 10 days.

With such system in place, I could not say that we get a lot of orders where people want to pay offline.
And of those that we do get, only about 30% end up actually mailing a check.

[Essex_boy]

Thats my experience too.

As of yet Ive never received a cheque in the post from a customer so when I hear it asked its of course I will and think no more about it.

[Raymond]

I guess people would ask always ask for more features but that doesn't mean they will actually use it. That probably explains the results of my survey.