Questions regarding receiving money from customers or sending money to vendors.
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Contracting with existing LLC - How to payout wages
A friend of mine and I have recently taken on a part time consulting gig. The job involves building custom software, and we've agreed to work 16 hours a week on the project. The contract was made ...
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How to monetize payment processing within a SaaS [closed]
I'm designing a SaaS now that allows users to invoice customers and accept payments via the customer's credit card. The users should also be able to make payments to their vendors. What's the best way ...
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Describing an Upfront Cost in an Invoice Description?
My client and I have agreed to 2 payments. One is due right after signing the contract (due 7 days after) and another when the product is completed.
I'm currently drafting the invoice for the first ...
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1answer
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Royalties as a means for acknowledging founders
I am in the process of establishing a business with four partners. Initially the shares were going to be split between the four partners but now it is clear that the majority of the work will be done ...
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What is the best way to charge subscription costs?
I've developting a SaaS product and would like to charge my users a subscription charge, I'm considering a model with a monthly fee and a annual discount - but now my question is this. How do I ...
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Payment methods and conditions for fresh startup
I am an Interface designer and a startup asked me to work with them. As of now they are only two people and do not have a budget, so they would offer a share in the company.
I would be fine in ...
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Online payment processor that takes care of charging the appropriate taxes for me? [closed]
I am planning to set up a small business that will charge customers a recurring monthly fee for an online service that I will be providing.
Unfortunately, it appears I will run into the "tax ...
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Paypal vs Amazon Payments in China for digital goods / subscriptions
Are there any metrics on market penetration of Paypal vs Amazon Payments, i.e. which has greater coverage/use among online users in China? I am restricting to these two for ease of implementation ...
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Is it okay to use 2 different payment accepting services (systems) on the website that sells SaaS software?
One service will be used for region A because it offers paypal, the second one will be used for region B (it does not have paypal option) but offers automatical generation and sending invoice for ...
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Is it legal in US or Canada to accept donations?
Is it legal (US/Canada) to accept donations if you're not a government registered non-profit organization? I've seen it on a couple of sites and was wondering what are the laws surrounding those ...
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Paying Overseas Project Partner
I am in the state of Montana, USA and have an app that my friend in the Netherlands and I built. I'm in charge of taking payments and I'm getting ready to send a payment his way. I'm wondering, what ...
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What Would Be A Fair Way To Pay A Freelance Software Development Tutor Coach In Online Marketplaces?
I have a wordpress development job. I want to implement the job by myself. But since I am not experienced in wordpress development, I want to find a paid tutor to help me in this job.
I plan to find ...
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1099 requirements for customers in middleman-type business
Note: I WILL be seeking information from a lawyer or accountant if I proceed but I want preliminary info here first.
I am considering a business that, for sake of example, is much like Guru.com or ...
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A website that recieves and issues payments
I'm planning to launch a website which involves collecting/issuing payments from/to customers. My website offers a service for customers in exchange of a small fee which customers pay using credit ...
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2answers
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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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Who should process payments?
Suppose:
Company A owns product P
P is managed by company B
The sales contract is between A and customers
A has a contract with B such that B receives all income generated by P
Could B directly ...
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11answers
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When to use merchant account instead of PayPal?
I wonder when it makes more sense to open a merchant account and use a payment gateway instead of old plain PayPal option? This should depend on the revenue processed, because merchant account has ...
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SaaS, should we pick the payment options or let the customer?
Working on a new B2C SaaS will allow our customers to accept payments online from their customers.
Currently we're trying to decided whether its better to have a list of payment gateways for our ...
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How to do business research of a existing business? [closed]
How can i get the business plan of airtel money and all the rules and regulations involved to launch airtel money ?
Can anyone tell me that why we can not consider airtel money as a payment gateway?
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LLC Sub-contracting money and tax question
Essentially, I started an LLC about 6 months ago. I have worked pretty closely with another developer, but so far have yet to pay him. We are developing a product right now and I have agreed to give ...
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3answers
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Payment solutions for the UK [closed]
I'm struggling to find a payment solution for my UK based startup. I don't intend to sell internationally for a considerable amount of time. I do have a turnover and can probably satisfy merchant ...
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4answers
119 views
Do I have to pay an internship student in US?
I would like to find a student to do some design work for my website. Is it OK to just give him recommendation letter but not pay?
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6answers
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How do you choose the base currency for online and mostly international sales?
We are about to launch a website offering products. My "gut" feeling is that a good proportion of our customers will be based in the US. We are currently based in the UK, though that is likely to ...
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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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Online payment processing options in Australia [closed]
Are there payment processors for Australian businesses that processes payment without a merchant account?
Stripe is an example of payment processor without a merchant account but it only available in ...
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1answer
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Should we be turning down software resellers?
We get emailed nearly daily from various software reselling companies around the world. They generally enquire as to the cost of 1 - 5 units of our software, and we generally turn down these requests ...
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Does a US employer need to pay any taxes for a non-US freelancer hired online?
We own an International Web Development company and get hired from all over the globe. We need to know if one of our US clients, needs to pay taxes for hiring us.
They paid us $750.00USD via PayPal. ...
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3answers
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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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Making payments though Check
Although we have other options (ACH, Wire, PayPal) but we also want to make payouts to our customers securely, but we're not sure what the ramifications will be.
I mean, what if:
The check never ...
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2answers
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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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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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3answers
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Where can I find a high risk online payment processor?
I run a business that works to provide electronic goods to our customers, and we have serious problems with customers defrauding us by claiming failure of delivery or similar through our current ...
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1answer
357 views
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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What's typical in terms of royalties?
I'm a developer negotiating compensation for a commercialized version of some data analysis software I wrote (see my profile if you like). This is a completely new experience for me. I want per-unit ...
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MD based LLC, outsourced technical expertise to India
I have a LLC based out of MD. I got a contract for a US based company, but a portion of it is outsourced to India. Can I pay them with funds in India, or should I transfer from a US based bank, once ...
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Invoicing customers that pay with Paypal or Google Wallet
I have an online service for which customer subscribes and pays a monthly fee. They use Paypal or Google Wallet to make these payments. Customers are starting to ask for invoices. Is there a way for ...
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Merchant account for UK-based online money transfer business
UK banks consider money transfer services as risky and so we can't get merchant account, although we are regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Does anyone know offshore banks that provide ...
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3answers
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Can I use a business name to accept Paypal donations (for free software) before legally forming a business?
I would like to give away some software I have developed for free on a website as donationware, but rather than see my name when people donate, I would like them to see something more official like ...
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Receiving payments for my LLC in my personal bank account
Before I setup my LLC I would receive payments to my personal account. So, going forward is it ok to continue with the way I receive payments, and deposit/transfer manually in the company account? Are ...
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How can I receive money on someone else's behalf? [closed]
I'm putting together a charitable giving framework which means that I will have to receive donated money, somehow extract my (small and reasonable) fee, and turn over the remaining money to the donee. ...
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Australia based payment processing [closed]
Since Authorize.net is US/Canada only, I am wondering if there is a Austrlian counterpart to them providing service similar to them?
What are must have,
Recurring payments
One time payments.
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6answers
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Payment Processing Migration
I’m building a SaaS product. My plan is to use the payment gateway (Authorize.net) & merchant account (First Data) I already have in place for other web-products to process the monthly fees. The ...
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Using Paypal for Gifting
I am hoping to generate some revenue by sending out emails to interested people about giving a gift to the company. I am aware in order to say "donation" you must be a 501(c)(3) however if you claim ...
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2answers
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Amazon Payments for B2B Software
We sell B2B software, and receive most of our payments by bank transfer or cheque. We're currently using Google Checkout to take online card payments.
We have some issues with Google Checkout though:
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3answers
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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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2answers
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How do I invoice Canadian customer from US?
I have US company and all of my customers so far here in US. I send monthly bill and get a check. No CC processing fees, etc.
Now I have some Canadian prospects. How can I bill them? Should I start ...
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Looking for a UK online payment solution that only takes a percentage or a flat fee [closed]
I'm currently looking for an online payment solution for a business website I'm working on and it turns out it's a bit more complex than I'd first though.
I'd like to run at a very small download fee ...
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How can I take refundable deposits online?
I am looking to provide rental items online, however it is important that I can take a deposit that will be returned after the usage of the item. I am aware of capture delay although my understanding ...
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Convert FREE to PAID service without losing customers?
This is a real estate website where agents can advertise their properties. Two years ago we've started as a FREE service to gain customers and visits. Now after a lot of investment we need to start ...
