Tom I've been accepting credit cards since I had a store in St. Louis back in the '80's, and '90s. For me it is very easy to do. I am now with 1st Nat. of Omaha. I write down the CC number on my billing pad, and have the customer sign it. When I get home, I call it in, using my touch tone phone, and the money is sent directly to my bank, usually in about 24 - 36 hours. I accept all cards, and the bank sends me a statement once a month to show my activity. American Express sends me a separate bill. The cost is about 3.5%. of what I bring in. It's more convenience than anything, although I would guess that for about a third of the customer who use the CC, if I had not accepted it, they probably would not have had the piano tuned, much less had extra work done. So for the additional dollars it brings in, it's definitely worth it. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Tom Driscoll <tomtuner at verizon.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Fri, Jan 14, 2011 5:34 am Subject: [pianotech] accepting credit card for service calls List, Of late I've been asked more often if I accept credit cards for service call payment . I have set up up a paypal merchant account for my tuning lever sales and yesterday used the account to send an invoice from the clients home to her email . She paid whilst I was still reassembling the piano . The fee from paypal is 3% with immediate access to the funds through a debit card. So my question dear list friends is about your experiences either way with credit card payments - fees etc . Thanks in advance, Tom Driscoll http://www.tomdriscollpianoservice.com/tools.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110114/ccf8943b/attachment.htm>
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