I'm really looking forward to the new release in July so that I can combine multiple items during the checkout procedure. I get alot of multiple purchases, so I disabled the checkout to avoid the confusion. But in the meantime..... What can I use to accept credit cards? I have an authorize.net account already, but I don't want people to email or phone me their card info. That's what I've done in the past and I feel so unprofessional when I do that. What are you all doing???

Lisa

I just use a paypal premier merchant account. Some sellers dont like using paypal because they say they have had trouble with it. But I have been using it for 2 yrs and I have yet to have a problem with it. If you get a bussiness account which has extra fees, you can accept credit cards directly. With the premier you can accept them but its through paypal and its still a small fee if they pay using a credit card.

lisa - the workaround for the combined is to have people pay for each individually (would a pain for some customers, i know) and then refund the extra as a partial refund or let them edit the total themselves.

I dont know of any other option except for the ones that will cost ya. Every place i've looked at that has 3rd party checkout with authorize.net capability has wanted a hefty chunk of change.

On an aside - as a buyer, i wont email card info because anyone with a packet sniffer can read emails, not to mention any server admin can read it as it passes through the server. (i say i wont, one time i did send it email but i sent part of number in one email, part of number in another email, etc.)

i've also come across a few websites that the payment page was nothing but an email form; in other words your cc number was going to be sent to the merchant via email for manual processing - ACK!

Is there no way in Checkout for the customer to alter their total? I guess it can't be turned off and on post-auction, eh? That would be a decent workaround if it could -- as long as the customer put what they were supposed to.

I know as a customer I'd be really wary of paying all of those invoices individually -- unless I already knew the seller, of course.

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Originally posted by Rick Bradford:
Is there no way in Checkout for the customer to alter their total? I guess it can't be turned off and on post-auction, eh? That would be a decent workaround if it could -- as long as the customer put what they were supposed to.

I know as a customer I'd be really wary of paying all of those invoices individually -- unless I already knew the seller, of course.

there's a setting in checkout for "Allow buyer to edit total amount" but I dont know if that includes raising the total. (which customer would have to do to manually combine). good idea, if it works. hadnt thought of that

Some folks will write off that option as well, though, because of customers who take it upon themselves to make the shipping cheaper, etc..