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Wepay kept emailing our directors list with HEY YOU SHOULD USE US
and we had to tell them to go away multiple times. This isn't
surprising as most all the financial industry is evil. <br>
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I'm a System's Administrator for a smallish (~100 people) credit
card processor here in Chicago. We have a lot of hacker friendly
people in IT. So I've been thinking for a while I should try to
setup something in our company that we can get hackerspaces
accounts. We do the underwriting inhouse most of the time. Problem
is that while rate wise we are cheaper than square, paypal, wepay,
etc, our model is not all that clear. Kinda like telco bills. There
is a set amount of overhead to have a merchant account. Different
companies call the fees different things, but overhead is still
overhead. <br>
<br>
What would be nice would be for a group like the School Factory to
pay for a general account that all other hackerspaces can process
through. Then all the spaces can get low rates and share the
overhead cost. Spaces would have to work together. Would anyone be
interested in this? <br>
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On 10/31/2011 10:40 PM, Carlyn maw wrote:
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cite="mid:CABsmUqJxPJv9Cq8HHu_WcfhRfFb1qMbd3knJDMxEC+SM+MPaqw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">We aren't one yet. That is the problem. We are working
on the paperwork, should be done by the end of the year. I'm not
totally freaking out about paypal because we were on the path
anyway and we'll get it back. (I've been on the phone with them 3
times) But if we hadn't been. Yikes. Now we just want
alternatives.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Psy Tek
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href="mailto:psytek@alphaonelabs.com">psytek@alphaonelabs.com</a>></span>
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I've heard good things about <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wepay.com/" target="_blank">https://www.wepay.com/</a> also
as long as you're a registered non-profit (you don't need to
be 501c3), you can use a non-profit Paypal account. Call them
and they can work something out with your account if you have
the incorporation and tax id.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:09 PM,
Carlyn maw <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:carlynorama@gmail.com" target="_blank">carlynorama@gmail.com</a>></span>
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Yeaaahhhh... we goofed and used the donate button to
collect money and got frozen there... we'll get it
back because we actually are going the 501(c)3 route,
but we're temporarily hosed. Hence the need for
merchant services/gateway asap.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 31, 2011
at 7:50 PM, Chris Weiss <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:cweiss@gmail.com"
target="_blank">cweiss@gmail.com</a>></span>
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At ArchReactor we've been using Square ( <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://squareup.com/"
target="_blank">https://squareup.com/</a>
) for<br>
in person CC payment. Not heard any
complaints yet. Best part is<br>
that if you have a smartphone, the
hardware is free. They don't have<br>
a e-commerce api though, so no web based
payments, still using paypal<br>
for that.<br>
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Carlyn
maw <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:carlynorama@gmail.com"
target="_blank">carlynorama@gmail.com</a>>
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<div>> So CRASH Space just tried to
get a merchant services account via<br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dharmamerchantservices.com"
target="_blank">dharmamerchantservices.com</a>
and they were cool, but their under
writing bank<br>
> (Moneris) was freaked out by the
fact that we, gasp, taught lock
picking and<br>
> associated with "hackers." I
think it is kinda funny.<br>
> They are going to put us in touch
with someone else, although it is
likely<br>
> we'll just go with our bank and
sign up with <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://authorize.net"
target="_blank">authorize.net</a>
directly, but<br>
> anyone have a credit card
processing group they like? Anyone
know anything<br>
> about <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://beanstream.com/"
target="_blank">http://beanstream.com/</a>
? I'm probably going to call them
tomorrow just<br>
> to get a feel for them.<br>
> Happy Halloween...<br>
> Best,<br>
> -- Carlyn<br>
><br>
><br>
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