Much to be digested here. I was about to give Square a try, but I stopped the process when they wanted my SS #. I'm very hesitant to give out my SS. To many ways to get into the wrong hands. Al - High Point, NC On Jan 15, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Jim Moy wrote: > 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 >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110115/b145bd2c/attachment.htm>
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