SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Chris Tilley
Hey all, Sorry if this doesn't belong here. I'm new to ecommerce and have helped my customer set it up. We are using the authorizeNet processing. Is there someway to know all the fees associated with ecommerce business? We currently get invoiced by: Millenium Bank Services, AuthorizeNet and

SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Chris Tilley
Hey all, Sorry if this doesn't belong here. I'm new to ecommerce and have helped my customer set it up. We are using the authorizeNet processing. Is there someway to know all the fees associated with ecommerce business? We currently get invoiced by: Millenium Bank Services, AuthorizeNet

Re: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Bryan Stevenson
] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 9:53 AM Subject: SOT - Ecommerce Hey all, Sorry if this doesn't belong here. I'm new to ecommerce and have helped my customer set it up. We are using the authorizeNet processing. Is there someway to know all the fees

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
I'm new to ecommerce and have helped my customer set it up. We are using the authorizeNet processing. Is there someway to know all the fees associated with ecommerce business? We currently get invoiced by: Millenium Bank Services, AuthorizeNet and Concord Payment Systems. This is a bit

Re: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Chris Tilley
- Original Message - From: Chris Tilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 9:53 AM Subject: SOT - Ecommerce Hey all, Sorry if this doesn't belong here. I'm new to ecommerce and have helped my customer set it up. We are using

Re: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Hey Chris, I'm in Canadaand any Canadian customers we do work for use Canadian processors (and there are some significant differnces between the Canadian and US banking system and features available for online card processing). It's also usually our clinets that find the best deal after we

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
Bryan or anyone else have any recommendations of a good company to handle all this with minimal cost? I want to do some comparisons. We selected Millenium only because of referral and I really don't know if we are getting a deal (avg fees) or getting taken for a ride? Usually, you find the

Re: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Adam Churvis
Bryan or anyone else have any recommendations of a good company to handle all this with minimal cost? I want to do some comparisons. We selected Millenium only because of referral and I really don't know if we are getting a deal (avg fees) or getting taken for a ride? This will explain all

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Eric Creese
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:58 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT - Ecommerce Bryan or anyone else have any recommendations of a good company to handle all this with minimal cost? I want to do some comparisons. We selected Millenium only because of referral and I really

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Andy Ousterhout
-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 9:53 AM Subject: SOT - Ecommerce Hey all, Sorry if this doesn't belong here. I'm new to ecommerce and have helped my customer set it up. We are using the authorizeNet processing. Is there someway to know all the fees

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Andy Ousterhout
You don't always need all of these players. Right know, I have my credit card account with Northern Trust and they've hired an electronic provider (ADP/Chase) that we use to process transactions. We do not have any additional fees besides the rate we negotiated with our bank. The majority of

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
You don't always need all of these players. Right know, I have my credit card account with Northern Trust and they've hired an electronic provider (ADP/Chase) that we use to process transactions. We do not have any additional fees besides the rate we negotiated with our bank. The majority

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
I highly recommend that you find a bank and use the service that they provide. If you start with the 3rd party, you of course are going to have an additional level of fees. By level, you mean that it will be broken down more, not that they will necessarily cost less, correct? Otherwise,

Re: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Adam Churvis
18, 2005 4:46 PM Subject: RE: SOT - Ecommerce I highly recommend that you find a bank and use the service that they provide. If you start with the 3rd party, you of course are going to have an additional level of fees. By level, you mean that it will be broken down more

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Andy Ousterhout
That may be in the fine print. But we only have a single account for both transactions. I believe it is more dependent on your bank. Card not present transactions have a higher risk since charges can be rejected for up to 6 or 9 months and the merchant has very limited recourse. So during

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Andy Ousterhout
Actually, they do cost less, since the bank negotiates with the processing firm for a significantly larger chunk of the business and also excepts all of the credit risk. This processing is part of being a bank, so they really can't mark it up in an uncompetitive fashion. But, as I mentioned

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
There's a lot of incorrect information being tossed about here -- but that's understandable because it's a seemingly complicated subject that no one ever seems to explain well enough. That's why I created this page on our site: You replied to my message, so I assume you're referring to my

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
Actually, they do cost less, since the bank negotiates with the processing firm for a significantly larger chunk of the business and also excepts all of the credit risk. This processing is part of being a bank, so they really can't mark it up in an uncompetitive fashion. But, as I mentioned

Re: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Adam Churvis
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 5:37 PM Subject: RE: SOT - Ecommerce There's a lot of incorrect information being tossed about here -- but that's understandable because it's a seemingly complicated subject that no one ever seems to explain well enough. That's why I created this page on our