making websites an merchant accounts

[bc]

Hey everybody, I've got a few ?'s about making a website an merchant accounts. I have been taking some of my time an designed some killer posters. One of a sweet Jason Lee piece an another of a Mike Fro piece. I had them professional photographed an printed. The end product is awesome. I'll be posting a link in the glassifieds an probably glasspipes.org as well as other places. My problem is this now. I own the website to pipeposters.com an now need to put together a simple but secure site. Something easy, two or three pages. A home page an order page an a wholesale order/contact page. Anyone here know anyone relieable? I sent dwaine an Pm. Open to suggestionse. Second, what do I need to get an merchant account, I need to accept visa an MC aswell as paypal. ANy shared info would be great.

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ps. posters coming soooon! :D

[somberbear]

you have to legaly be one , thus a bisness licence for what ever state/county your work in. this can be easy or hard , but it means your gotta be 100% legit and need tax records etc. audits would suck.

oh well some ideas.

[Wonker]

But on a happier note, for a few bucks a month, you can use an upgraded Paypal system that will let you accept payments from Visa and Mastercard without having to have a merchant account of your own.

[smutboy420]

When I used to run my salvia site and my RC site. my shopping cart was from http://www.800cart.com/ and threw them I got signed up with the place that process the payments,
https://www.linkpoint.com


You need a bank account and thats all. if you expect to have more then $5,000 a month in sales they want a deposit but the cool part is they will do whats called a hold back deposit. They hold 40% of the funds from each trasaction till you have your deposit. wich is a lot cooler then having to send them $ for the deposit before you even sell any thing. the draw back is it takes 6 months to get the deposit back.

they never cared what we sold. They where just the card processer. and they never hit us with a deposit till we where bringing in a few grand a week in sales. Then they wanted a hefty deposit of $3000

The key to signing up to these places is to do it on line and when they ask how much you expect to bring in sales per month select under $500 a month.

the big down side to them if you are not raking in a lot of sales is there is a $49 a month fee on top of the small % they get for the sales. so if your raking its all good if you have no slaes some month tho you still got to pay the fee.


discover card has a good processing system to its $15 one time fee to sign up and low % on the fee per sale and no monthly.

[Vapor Glass]

id be glad to answer any questions you got. email me if you want. info at vaporglass.com

[gypsea]

i use linkpoint too.......

[melt]

easiest i have found is paypal. you would get an account and then make buy now buttons and paste the code into your site. the buttons take people to the paypal site and you get $. not very complicated and cheap.