[hackerspaces] Merchant Service Account Reccomendations

[Carlyn maw]

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.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Psy Tek <psytek at alphaonelabs.com> wrote:

> I've heard good things about https://www.wepay.com/  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.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Carlyn maw <carlynorama at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Chris Weiss <cweiss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> At ArchReactor we've been using Square ( https://squareup.com/ ) for
>>> in person CC payment.  Not heard any complaints yet.  Best part is
>>> that if you have a smartphone, the hardware is free.  They don't have
>>> a e-commerce api though, so no web based payments, still using paypal
>>> for that.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Carlyn maw <carlynorama at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > So CRASH Space just tried to get a merchant services account via
>>> > dharmamerchantservices.com and they were cool, but their under
>>> writing bank
>>> > (Moneris) was freaked out by the fact that we, gasp, taught lock
>>> picking and
>>> > associated with "hackers." I think it is kinda funny.
>>> > They are going to put us in touch with someone else, although it is
>>> likely
>>> > we'll just go with our bank and sign up with authorize.net directly,
>>> but
>>> > anyone have a credit card processing group they like? Anyone know
>>> anything
>>> > about http://beanstream.com/ ? I'm probably going to call them
>>> tomorrow just
>>> > to get a feel for them.
>>> > Happy Halloween...
>>> > Best,
>>> > -- Carlyn
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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