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[Glenn]

I was visiting the website of an indie recording artist today,
and there was a link to paypal, where I could pay via
credit card or paypal.  I don't know anything more about
how it works, but the experience seemed ok to me,
and I think the public may be more willing to give
credit card info to someone like paypal than to some
small outfit that they may not be too familiar with.  I maintain
3 .org websites, all three are very small organizations
and I also am interested in how I might give them the ability
to accept payments online.

Thanks for bringing the subject up.

Glenn

On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:28 PM, inforequest wrote:

> David Mintz dmintz-at-davidmintz.org |nyphp dev/internal group use| 
> wrote:
>
>> I need to set up online credit card processing for a small non-profit
>> organization and I'm wondering what you folks recommend. This 
>> organization
>> has its bank account of course but that's it -- no merchant account or
>> anything.
>>
>> I've surfed a few like charge.com that google turned up -- surprise! 
>> they
>> all claim they are the greatest. I have been looknig at echo-inc.com 
>> but
>> they insist that you open a business checking account with a specific
>> bank, which I think rather sucks.
>>
>> So -- whom do you use and what do you think?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> ---
>> David Mintz
>> http://davidmintz.org/
>>
>>
>
> A true non-profit (in the IRS' eyes) should be careful about choosing a
> merchant service because it is actually a bank account of sorts. My 
> lone
> experience with that situation required alot of attention from the
> non-profit's CPA (I can't say whether or not that attention was "smart"
> or just a big waste of time). They ended up going through their own 
> bank
> at considerable cost.
>
> -=john andrews
> http://www.seo-fun.com
>
>
>
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