Hi Guys & Gals Thought I would ask you fellow start-up folk to share some of your experiences.
We are preparing our product http://spellr.us for paid launch soon. As much of the interest in our product has been from the US we have chosen to charge in $US and want the users to have nothing to do with $AU. We also wish to offer VISA, Mastercard & Amex (all charged in US$). Interestingly this is not a simple thing to do. The options we face are: 1) AU payment gateway + NAB multicurrency account. Great solution except this only works for Visa & Mastercard. AMEX AU provide no service to accept $US if you are an AU company. 2) Paypal - doesn't accept Amex if you are an AU business. 3) Worldpay - challenges on recurring billing 4) Opening up a US bank account and obtaining a US merchant facility. I would be interested to know any AU companies that have had the same issues and how you approached it. I am also interested to know how easy/difficult it is to set-up a US company + Bank account + merchant facility. As an aside in my travels researching this issue I found the following interesting links: 1) Good diagram explaining the online payment process: http://www.usaepay.com/diagram.htm 2) List of online payment gateways/payment gateways+merchants http://www.x-cart.com/payment_gateways.html Looking forward to getting other peoples' experiences. Regards, Kevin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
