Selling Services (Non-profit in Costa Rica)

[darshahlu]

Hello every one.

I am the webmaster for www.crrobs.org, a non-profit organization in Costa Rica. We sell multi-week adventure courses for surfing, Spanish immersion, kayaking, etc.

For payment of our adventure courses, we currently accept Visa credit cards that we must manually enter using a Card Reader device.

We now want to allow costumers to pay online.

I understand that we will need to obtain an Internet Merchant Account, a Payment Gateway, and implement our online storefront. We already have a merchant account with ATH which allows us to accept Visa credit cards.


Can you please recommend an Internet Merchant Account and Payment Gateway that works with a Costa Rican bank (Banca Costa Rica)?


Thank you very much.

Darshan

[JEccles]

I really don't know off hand. But, check with Authorize.net or Paypal. If they don't, they may know who will.

[darshahlu]

Thanks for your response. These are the companies I've already talked to and their responses:

Google Checkout - available to US and UK merchants only
Paypal - requires a US bank account
InternetSecure - available to US or Canada only
2CheckOut - contract with online vendors; not really what I'm looking for.

Authorize.net - awaiting response
WorldPay - awaiting response
CCNow - awaiting response

I have the detailed responses if anyone is interested in reading them...

Anyone have any other ideas as far as selling online in Costa Rica?

[JEccles]

Have you checked with any of your local banks about setting up a merchant account?

[posylane]

I would think your first stop would be your local commercial banks.