Questions regarding receiving money from customers or sending money to vendors.
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Supplier not sent goods, now ignoring emails
I have a new retail startup selling electronics. I have a problem with a supplier that has sent some goods, but not all. The situation is as follows:
Sent initial purchase order on June 7, a total of ...
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Furious client does not want to pay
We run a website and charge clients to have 'listings' on our page (full company profiles). The vast majority of our clients is satisfied and receives new clients through our website. Our rate is ...
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Is it possible to deposit money in an unverified PayPal account?
I created an unverified PayPal account. However, I was able to send a money request email to my wife and there, the big Pay Now button exist and seems to work. Is it possible to get money from other ...
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How Should I Price My Products or Services
Marketing your startup takes many forms. The classical marketing approach revolves around the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion and Place.
For this question and answer, we will tackle the Pricing ...
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What payment scheme would be a good choice for my project?
I am trying to figure out a good payment scheme for my project. I am just confused now. :(
This project involved 3 actors.
website admin who provide the service/system
publisher (who sell space ...
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Reasonable share in startup company
I am working on a startup project (software) and I'm really enjoying it. I think the company has great potential.
Up until now, the work has been part time and I've been able to fit it into my spare ...
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How much should a technical cofounder be paid?
I have the following skillset: xhtml, js, jquery, css, php, C#, asp.net, mysql, oracle, etc.
I would be the tech. co-founder of a startup with 2 other co-founder (business end) and be the sole ...
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Switch straight to paid saas?
I have a successful tool that has received lots of buzz for the past week or two. The tool is currently free and I hope to adopt a freemium model. I have the following options and I can't decide ...
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Looking for payment system with licensing (key delivering) for .NET software
I developed .NET application and planning to sell it on monthly/yearly subscription plans.
At first I found that Plimus has licensing system and everything else that I need, but when I finally decided ...
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Is it a bad idea to have a direct credit card buying option on my website?
I'm preparing a digital product that I'm going to sell in the days to come. I am a programmer, so I don't have any problems in preparing my website and even setting Paypal to handle my payment system.
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1answer
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How do I get payment processing in Mexico?
As suggested by Nielsen in another thread, here I am asking directly:
What merchant accounts/payment gateways are there available for Mexico-based businesses BESIDES paypal website payments standard?
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Online Merchant Account/Payment Gateway for Non-U.S. based Businesses
As many of you - who do not live in the us - surely know, it's near impossible to find an online merchant account/payment gateway other than paypal standard for non-us based businesses.
If there's ...
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If you're working on a project that's not yet a company how do you give ownership to others?
I'm working on a personal project that I hope to be able to turn into a company onwards into the future. If I incorporated now I feel it would bring in a lot of legal issues I'm not capable of dealing ...
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1answer
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Micropayment solutions outside United States?
I have a small project that sells legal music online, per transaction is less than a dollar so the traditional payment solutions are not my option because they charge too much fee.
I found out that ...
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5answers
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Insuring against non payment
If after doing the necessary credit checks, after loaning someone some money, they don't pay it back after a period (how long would this need to be?) is there a way I can indemnify my business against ...
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First employee at Y Combinator funded company
I may have the chance to be the first employee of a startup going to the YC summer 2011 program.
The thing is I think they are planning to cover my expenses but not to actually pay me or offer any ...
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4answers
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[UK Contracting] how much to put aside after being paid?
I'm a new UK contractor, and I've just had my first payment and was wondering how much I should put aside and how I go about actually transferring the cash from my business account to my account.
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What is the most economical way to pay people and companies in India from the US?
For the past several years we have used Paypal to pay freelancers and outsourcing companies in India. But as of March 1, 2011, it appears that Indian banking laws have changed and we can no longer use ...
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Question about how much informaiton I should collect for my digital downloads store. Paypal is the only payment gateway!
Paypal is the only payment gateway!
so, my current system only collects seller's PayPal email addressed and create buttons based on that email address.
since its all digital downloads, there will be ...
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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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Need suggestions on naming payment options
We mainly use PayPal as our payment processor on our website. Of late we're seeing that PayPal is having issues with corporate credit cards. Moreover, going forward, PayPal won't accept payments more ...
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5answers
517 views
Paypal vs Online payment systems
I've been googling and googling, but can't seem to find a clear answer.
I'm pondering on just using paypal payment system (which is really simple and fast) on my site or using on site payment ...
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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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Accepting checks made out to my LLC
I've just started a new LLC in Wisconsin. I've done some Googling and I found out that I need to fill out "some forms" and give the bank some "notifications" before I can accept checks made out to my ...
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How to handle payments by cheques for Affiliate Program? [closed]
We're currently looking at building an internal affiliate program vs. having a 3rd party manage it. This will require us to make some payments to our affiliates via cheques. Does anyone know of any ...
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695 views
Sale of licenses (license key) for Air apps
How (what services use) to better organize the protection, payments, sending license keys for shareware Air applications?
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Moneybookers Not Accepting Payments but Accepts Competitors (legal action?)
I currently run a poker startup which sells datamined statistics. I've been trying to accept payments from a merchant called moneybookers as they are very popular in the poker community. They don't ...
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Taking and making payments between users
I am in the nascent stages of developing a service that will allows some users to request a certain task and others to perform those tasks. Money in from the user requesting, company takes a small ...
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Setting up payments similar to AdSense
I'm thinking about how to handle a payment system which is similar to AdSense or some other advertising network. Advertisers pay some relatively large chunk of cash for each advert, a percentage of ...
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B2B ecommerce portal - transactions information [closed]
Updated Question:
Let's suppose:
Business A - Registers on the Portal and make some products/services available;
Business B - Registers on the Portal and make some products/services available;
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Startup without company?
If I have access to a big hall/room in a building I own and I wanted to convert it into a personal gym. Then one day I say to a friend, you can use my gym if you give me $100 a year, and I will give ...
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Best way to pay users
Lets say I make the next google ads service (hypothetically speaking), how can I pay my users in more or less real time? with minimal or no additional cost to the company.
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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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How should I charge web customers for small transaction amounts?
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So in short, is there a free way for me to get $1 from a customer and send that $1 to my bank account. If free is not an option, what is the cheapest way for me to get that $1 to my bank ...
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If my company is in Australia, I sell into anywhere and the work is done anywhere who's taxes should apply?
Basically as the title suggests, the tax situation is getting grayer over time as new business models emerge.
We are considering one where the app is hosted "somewhere", the company is currently in ...
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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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How to pay content creators
I am developing an iOS app that provides educational content, created by professionals (teachers, professors, etc). New content will be added continuously. The number of content editors is limited ...
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cleverbridge for online payments
We are looking at somone to handle online payments for us and we came across cleverbridge.
They seem like a pretty full featured solution, however they dont list pricing on their website.
Can anyone ...
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How can I charge a cellphone carrier company?
I run a web service. I receive payments / donations through paypal and I'm considering mobile payments.
http://www.boku.com/ and paymo do this.
I would like to see if it's beneficial for me to skip ...
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Monthly subscription management service and payment gateway UK
We are currently building a website which includes a monthly subscription plan(s). We have a merchant account with Streamline and looking for a payment gateway.
We would like to use a billing ...
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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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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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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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LLC, how to get paid?
A friend and I have started an LLC. We'll be doing web/interactive and video services. Since some of these services take longer than others is it ok for the members (my friend and I) to be paid ...
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Redirect user for payment or let them stay on your site?
I am using Paypal subscription for charging the customers monthly. When they sign up, I have an option of either redirecting them to the Paypal site to enter the credit card details or gather this ...
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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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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 to do when customer doesn't pay?
I'm at a startup with about 30 employees and we are doing pretty well and have a good number of customers.
One customer owes us about $10,000. Not enough to make it worth it to file a lawsuit but ...
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How to start an online payment gateway provider
I would like to know what it takes to provide an online payment gateway like worldpay paypal etc
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Newbie PayPal confusion: Do I have to inform PayPal each time I leave my country otherwise it will limit my account?
Recently my account was limited by paypal while I was traveling. when I called them, they told me that I was limited because I tried to access my account from abroad and that I needed to email them ...
