Merchant Accounts--and frustrations

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Originally Posted by Corey Bryant

I'll admit it was a bit confusing - going directly over to another website (and not being SSL). This is why I tend to suggest Paypal (since their brand name is known) or keep buyers on your site.

That gateway should have an API that could be integrated into your website, unless it was the cart you were relying on as well

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Oh dear. Well, I was actually using PayPal but someone suggested I have something people can just put their credit card info directly into instead of having to sign up for a paypal account.

With PayPal they can do that -- a PP account is not required.

Depending on the country you are in Laciemn, Paypal has different offers. Some of the offers though for US residents that Paypal has is the API (where users stay on your secure website during the check out process) and most users won't need a Paypal account (as long as you have the proper account within Paypal).

Contact them for more questions. And as usual, call them twice to make sure you get the proper answers. Unfortunately with most larger corporations information sometimes is not disseminated properly and you will get the incorrect answers.

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The site looks good, it could use a little improvement but mostly it's fine.

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i don't want to offend you, but your design looks exactly like scam pages with a slightly different color scheme.

Getting setup with a merchant account is very frustrating. You sign up with one company only to discover they are working with another party and another party. It's impossible to know who all the players are before hand. I'm on my third merchant this year. The industry is in a real mess as far as communicating to the prospective customer who they are and will be dealing with. I signed up with one company and got an email from a different company saying welcome, etc. etc.