Interland! Just muttering that word would make me turn over in my grave if I were dead. I would worry greatly about downtime, which in my Interland experience is about 50/50.
At 08:39 PM 7/16/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Mike and Matt: > >Thanks for the suggestions. I'll just have to get with the customers and >try to project the number of transactions and sales volume when weighing one >approach (attractivel priced merchant account) vs. the other (account with >no fixed monthly cost, but high per-transaction fees). > >Matt, what reservations do you have about 2checkout.com? Looks like they're >hosted with Interland, most likely (I would hope) on a dedicated server. > >Jim > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Matt Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 6:51 PM >Subject: RE: Very small volume web sales > > > > I would go with 2checkout.com as the best of a bad lot (they're actually >pretty good). One time $50 startup fee ($0 monthly), 5.5% trans fee + 45 >cents/trans, plus the features you get, its the best no-merchant-acct deal >you'll find. I use them personally for my own stuff and, with some rare >exceptions - for which there are workarounds - they've been pretty good. >Mostly hands-off. > > > > You can even pass data to them from your cart forms to their processor >script, just like a grownup, although I've been lazy on my own stuff and >still use their checkout form. > > > > One thing thats never given me a warm glow, tho': do a traceroute on 'em, >then a whois on the destination domain that pops up: > > > > http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/tracert.ch?ip=2checkout.com > > > > > > --------------------------------------- > > Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > MSB Designs, Inc., www.mysecretbase.com > > --------------------------------------- > > > > > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > > from: "Tangorre, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:34:59 -0400 > > > > I would say that PAYPAL would be ok, but check these two places out.. > > I have used both and both tie into CF very easily, I could probably give >you some code too. > > > > www.merchantanywhere.com > > www.echo-inc.com > > > > they look a little cheesey but they are good companies. merchantanywhere >has great customer service too.. > > > > mike > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tue 7/16/2002 6:35 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Cc: > > Subject: OT: Very small volume web sales > > > > > > > > What's a good approach for online sales for sites that do _very_ little in > > sales volume? I've got a couple of clients interested in a simple >shopping > > cart to sell a few products, but the monthly costs of a merchant cc > > processing account makes the usual approach too expensive. Use PayPal? A > > Yahoo store? Something else? > > > > Jim > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
