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Credit card for business expenses: not 100% business OK?
I'm thinking of starting an LLC for my app projects, and I'd like to keep a separate business credit card to make the corporate veil harder to pierce. However, a lot of my business expenses are also ...
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How does Stripe process American Express cards for only 2.9%? [closed]
I really like Stripe's simple and transparent credit card processing fee structure. The fees are very competitive (non-swiped rate of 2.9% + $0.30/transaction) regardless of things like whether a card ...
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With an new LLC, how best to accept credit cards? [closed]
I would like to ask the start-up community, on what my options are for the easiest and best ways for accepting credit-card payments for my LLC. (It is just me, single member).
A client of mine has ...
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Multi-vendor marketplace-Dealing with transactions & Payments
I'm a few weeks into developing a multi-vendor, business to business website. Here is my issue:
We could potentially have a single user purchasing from multiple sellers at one time.
We are ...
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What is the best merchant processing solution? [closed]
If you want to take credit card orders (or pre-orders), what is the best merchant processing solution?
I've heard the PayPal and Google Checkout will freeze your funds if even a single person ...
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Instantly credit checking customers
I'm from the UK and I'm looking for a way to credit check customers on the fly when they enter their relevant information into our forms.
When they hit submit, I'm assuming we'll call some form of ...
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Barriers to truly global payment processing?
As a startup in Australia, one of the problems commonly faced here is getting a suitable payment service that customers world wide can use.
It seems that since the implementation of global AML/KYC ...
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Rates where the Money Back Guarantees option is used
I have read several other posts on Money Back Guarantees, but none address my question, which is related to expense budgeting.
We will be offering a service where we represent the interests of third ...
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Legal implications of a chargeback on NO-Refund policy
I wonder if publishing a NO-refund policy will prevent the chargeback?
As a business, we'll show it where the customers can see it -- on the website and include in emails invoices and sales receipts. ...
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Legal implications of creating and sharing a customer blacklist?
We're creating a marketplace where expect lots of buyers for digital goods ranging from $1 to $10.
Now obviously there are people who initiate chargebacks (costs $15!) without even communicating with ...
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What do you build in your e-commerce site to gain consumer trust?
I'm co-founding a start-up that is developing an e-commerce app. We're trying to decide what features to build in that shoppers would expect to see in order to feel comfortable submitting credit card ...
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How to find users of my extra credit card charging capacity, for business expenses?
Does anyone know of a way to find small businesses who need credit card charging capacity, but don't have it? For example, it's difficult for some LLCs to get business credit cards.
For several ...
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Credit card processing for startup
What are the options available for online credit card processing? I have developed a website where I need to charge credit card. I will not be interested in storing credit card information. I know ...
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Which Credit card processors allow us to retrieve payment information?
Which credit card processor allow us to retrieve payment information from their server in case if we need the payment information?
I believe my question isn't clear enough and I decided to write a ...
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How can I separate my personal credit from my business without a lot of hassle?
I've been operating a local computer repair and retail business for about 2 years and haven't needed a line of credit until now. The problem is that I'm in college and have student loans. So, as a ...
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3D Secure payments and chargebacks
A payments question for you:
If you accept credit card payments and request 3D Secure / Verified by Visa payment, but the card is not enrolled in 3DS and thus the payment completes without 3DS ...
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Suggestions for dealing with a monthly Subscription billed in $US but showing up in foreign currency as varying monthly amount
We just started a Monthly Subscription this year. We're now expanding it to non-US currencies (e.g., $AUD).
The challenge is that the amount the customer sees (in $AUD) will vary every month with ...
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Does an iPhone app need PCI compliance?
I want to write an iPhone app that provides a common ordering interface for a number of disparate sites that do not have an ordering API. To ensure I can rapidly adapt to any changes in each site's ...
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How can I handle occasional credit card transactions?
I use Paypal to handle payments. Recently I found out they require the customer to have an account for large transactions. However, it is impossible for a corporate credit card user to create an ...
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How can you reduce the number of credit card chargebacks for a website selling high value products that are vulnerable to fraud?
From this question on Merchant Account Chargeback Ratios, one answer suggested that websites selling high value items will have higher charge backs because more criminals will attempt to purchase ...
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Good options for credit card processing
I'm bootstrapping a micro-startup hosting service with very, very little capital.
All of my customers will have recurring billing with a possible trial period. Initially I integrated with ...
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Peer to peer marketplace payments
I am in the process of setting up a peer to peer marketplace. I would like to allow buyers to pay directly with credit card, and sellers to receive batch payments into their checking account directly ...
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Merchant Account or Gateway. Who charges what and how does it work?
I'm going to take credit cards over the phone/fax. That means I need some kind of virtual terminal.
I contacted my bank (Bank of America) and got following quote:
Set up: $130.00
Monthly: $37.99
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What do people think about Intuit's online credit card processing?
It turns out that Intuit does online credit card processing. See here.
What do people think about their services? How do they compare to Google Checkout or PayPal?
Are there any horror stories?
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Membership software
I am looking to create a business who's customers buy units of our product. It might even evolve to a membership situation where they are buying units on a scheduled basis each month. I want these ...
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Negotiating a volume discount on interchange fees
I think this forum is appropriate for the following question, but if not, I am happy to be directed elsewhere.
For startup business planning purposes, I am wondering if anyone here has heard of a ...
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Free Trials - Open registration Vs. Credit Card required
Does anyone have personal experience, good articles, or case studies that document the pros and cons of offering a free trial with no obligation (i.e. you don't collect credit card information at ...
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First time credit card processor?
Does anyone have any experience when it comes to jumping directly into your own credit card processor and merchant account with an online startup? I know some merchant accounts require you are already ...
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What's the Best Credit Card for a Start-up?
I've been using our debit/bank card to make purchases, and I'm not entirely comfortable putting that out there. I'd also like to potentially be earning points for things, although I don't want to pay ...
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Can I require a credit card for a $5,000 service?
I'm getting to ready to launch a business-to-business service that will charge a $5,000 fee per service rendered. I would like to only accept credit cards, but I'm not sure if most customers are able ...
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Credit card processor fees
What is a cost of using a credit card processor? How much does it cost to set up for a small startup (lets say, a small store or a restaurant), what are the fees of using the processor, and what are ...
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What are some services that allow credit card payments on behalf of another company (i.e. Groupon, LivingSocial, etc)?
My startup operates in a similar fashion to that of the typical daily deal sites - we accept payment from our users, take a cut off the top, and pay out the person\company providing the goods or ...
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Require Credit Card for Trial Sign-up
We are rethinking our 30-day trial for our B2B (small business) CMS. It is a very niche service and we have about 600 active paying subscribers at this point.
In the past, I have always subscribed to ...
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What is the most affordable combination for taking credit card payments online from around the world?
I have looked at the similar questions posted and believe mine is different - please read the specifics of my question below:
Assuming we do not want to use PayPal (or Google Checkout etc.), it seems ...
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When sending money from an office in one country to another, if this money is sent via credit/debit card payment are there any tax implications?
One of the company's co-founders is investing and to avoid high fees I suggested we use our merchant account whereby he will make a payment online and then I will receive the money in the UK. Is this ...
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AcceptPay American Express
We are looking into taking credit card payments. AcceptPay by American Express is a $30 gateway/merchant account combo. Has anyone used this service?
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startup credit card issues
So here's the issue, I need to accept credit cards on my site, but I don't want to go through a merchant service, I want to go through visa/ amex/etc directly (it's a long story..). Now, to even get a ...
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Chicken/Egg: New Startup, Need Credit Card
We're a new startup and need a credit card to make some online purchases. We're looking into options and all of them seem to want at least two years of business history, positive cash flow, etc. ...
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What is the easiest way to charge credit cards?
My site accepts credit cards through PayPal, but some customers still send me credit card information in their e-mails or purchase orders. PayPal does not allow me to use this information to charge ...
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Business loan dilemma?
In the near future I will be taking a small business loan. I had planned on going to my local bank or to lending club but then I figured maybe I can get away with opening a new credit card with a 0% ...
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Send payments to credit/debit cards
Does anyone knows about a company/service/way that allows to send payments to credit/debit cards? I want my website be able sending to worldwide affiliates their commissions that way.
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take payments from mobile phone?
I have noticed on sites like facebook that they allow you to buy facebook credits by entering in your phone number on the website in the payment options screen.
How does this work?
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Merchant account charge back ratios
Anone familiar with the charge back ratios for merchant accounts?
I am starting a monthly re-occurring billing service that will no doubt have lots of charge backs from customers. I'm trying to ...
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Is there a service similar to Amazon Flexible Payments in Egypt?
Particularly, is there a payments service which will allow me to reserve funds on a customer’s credit card and settle these funds later?
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Should I give a discount when people pay with credit card
I have a software product (price around 700 USD). Some customers use PayPal, which is very low-touch and easy for us. Others want to do the whole procedure: RFQ / price quote / PO / invoice / wire ...
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What is the quickest way to offer your SaaS customers credit card billing?
I have a SaaS product and want to offer my customers the ability to accept credit cards themselves. What's the quickest way to set this up?
EDIT: I'm starting to think that giving the SaaS user a ...
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Corporate credit without putting CEO as a personal guarantor?
Looks like a lot of things have changed, since I've had to look for this last time.
Right some of us have corporate credit cards at our company, but all of them have my CEO as a personal guarantor. ...
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Business Operating under 2 names for CC purposes
I currently have a LLC that I am operating under. I am wanting to start a web service that will be accepting credit card payments. The web service will go under a name that is very different then my ...
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Reward deals on Business Credit Cards? Who gives the most kickback?
There are just too many incentives and rewards credit cards out there to choose from, so I wanted to ask if anyone knows of a business credit card that is particularly good.
Ideally I am looking to ...
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Accepting payments… subscription plans
So, I am a total newbie when it comes to payment processing, acceptance of payments, subscription plans, etc.
I've recently built out the SaaS offering and will be in beta with it through the end of ...
