[pianotech] accepting credit card for service calls

[Jim Moy]

I think another advantage of having the Square swiper is that I can say I
don't have their credit card number, so there is no way for me to lose it. I
think with the credit card fraud problem over the past decade people have
become a bit more sensitive to that.

Jim

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:11 AM, <tnrwim at aol.com> wrote:

>
>  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
>>
>
>
>
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