Has any one experience/advice concerning setting up to accept payment by card?
I am a Chartered Building Surveyor carrying out pre-purchase surveys on residential property and have been working on a self-employed basis since being made redundant about 18 months ago. I have been taking payment by cheque and bank transfer but feel from potential clients enquires that moving to accept payment by credit/debit card would be likely to win me more instructions.
Has anyone got any advice?
Bob Hepburn
The fastest way to get up and running is probably to set up a Paypal account. This allows you to take payments not just from other Paypal users, but from anyone with a credit or debit card that Paypal accepts.
https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing/general/PayPalAccountTypes-outside
Paypal is owned by eBay. Google has set up a rival payment system to Paypal, but I think it has far fewer users.
Regards,
Ian.
Hi
The way we did it was to join the Federation of Small Business (FSB) so not only do u get all the benifits the FSB offer, leagal help line etc etc, you will be able to get a merchant bank account that will cost u nothing to set up, and we use the payment gateway Sage Pay used to be called protex, that costs us about £12 a month for the virtual terminal, plus about a 2% commision on credt card payments.
If u decided to go down this route when u join the FSB get thier rep to come and see u and help u put the application in for the Merchant Account etc, he will be able to advise u on how to go about it all.
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