Selling Services (Non-profit in Costa Rica)

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

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

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?

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

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