Jim, As you noted, and another commented, they are hosted by Interland. Another poster made a negative comment. I certainly have posted my fair share of those on the CF forums.
In addition to the good experience of painlessly collecting a pretty decent amount of money thru them, I have had a couple of bad experiences over the last 9 months or so: 1. Their anti-fraud protection is very strict. I had a $300 payment from a client rejected summarily because the order was placed by a different person than the cardholder, it was a high-dollar item and came from a foreign country (Australia ain't exactly Indonesia, but...). This can be avoided by watching the receipts coming in and, if you know the buyer, sending their fraud dept. an email you know it's a legitimate order. 2. Right now their recurring billing feature, which I rely on for my small biz hosting customers, just started double-billing one of my clients. Its been 24 hrs and so far no response, which is extremely annoying as today they billed the client again! Like I said, best of a bad lot. In all fairness I use them for things like recurring billing and some bigger-ticket stuff that's a bit outside the norm. If you just want to tie in a store (their cart tie-in supposedly emulates Authorize.net, although I haven't tried it) they seem to be pretty good. --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com -----Original Message----- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 7:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Very small volume web sales 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 ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm 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
