Whoops, I lied, my first transaction using Square was back in October, and I was a pretty early adopter, so only three months. Seems like longer :-( Jim On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Jim Moy <jim at moypiano.com> wrote: > Been using them about six months now. Experimenting with my own credit > card, it took me four swipes to get the correct speed, but since then I'm > shooting 100%. They email you immediately when the record a payment, and the > transaction with my bank is begun either the same or next day. Shows up in > my bank account after that the same as with any ACH transaction. No monthly > fees. > > There may be some confusing information out there, because when it > initially started up, they were saying a $50 limit on each transaction or > something thereabouts. But that has been since resolved, no limit except for > the per week thing that has been discussed here. > > And my customers love it. One was even going to run out to the store to get > cash because they didn't use checks, and didn't have cash on hand, and when > I showed her the little swiper her face lit up. "Oh, no way, you can DO > that?" :-) > > Jim > > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft < > alliedpianocraft at hotmail.com> wrote: > >> 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/f249d234/attachment.htm>
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