I have been accepting Credit Cards through PayPal for a few years now. It's very safe and reliable, I get my money in 3 days. The only problem I have is that all transactions must be made via email and I can't accept a CC number directly. Al - High Point, NC This is the reason I don't use Pay Pal. I use the direct approach. A customer hands me their credit card, I record the numbers, and they sign my tuning ticket. That's all they have to do. The customer doesn't have to get on line and do all that work. I can take a CC over the phone, too. I do that when someone wants to give a tuning to a child or grandchild as a gift. Just the other day a college used a CC for a major action job. I got my money right away, instead of waiting a month or two for the finance office to process the paper work. Several times I've tuned a piano for someone who was at work, and I got her CC over the phone. WIm -----Original Message----- From: Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <alliedpianocraft at hotmail.com> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Sat, Jan 15, 2011 7:09 am Subject: Re: [pianotech] accepting credit card for service calls Jim, The Square system appears to be a good alternative to PayPal. How long have you been using their service? Are you comfortable that you will receive payments promptly? Their website indicates that there is no monthly fee to use the service. Is that true? How quickly do you get your money? I have been accepting Credit Cards through PayPal for a few years now. It's very safe and reliable, I get my money in 3 days. The only problem I have is that all transactions must be made via email and I can't accept a CC number directly. Al - High Point, NC On Jan 15, 2011, at 1:37 AM, Jim Moy wrote: http://www.squareup.com I pull the thing out, and curiosity overcomes people, they've just gotta see it work. And saves me from having to scan a check :-) Jim On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Tom Driscoll <tomtuner at verizon.net> wrote: 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/20110115/778913c6/attachment.htm>
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