[mplpost] credit card sales

[Bill Elliott]

You can set up both cards with a company called Moneris.
http://www.moneris.com/

If you're charging $20.00 U.S., then don't forget to change the amount to
the Canadian equivalent.
Sincerely,
Bill Elliott
Orangeville Fiddle and Step Dance Camp
belliott@easyfocus.com
http://www.fiddle.on.ca
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Gordon" <gormorse@sentex.net>
To: <maplepost@icomm.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [mplpost] credit card sales


> Hi Jennifer..,,
> I've been taking Mastercard sales at live gigs for years now... I find
that
> it accounts for about 20 percent of sales... and is usually from that 20
> percent who wouldn't buy if I didn't have that plastic method... It wasn't
> that hard to set up through my credit union ( the most folkie of all
> financial institutions)--- you get a "merchant account"... i use one of
> those old fashioned hand-swiper Kachinger thingies.. but you can  get ones
> that plug into a phone line too ( which might be hard at gigs)-- I'm able
to
> deposit the sales directly by phone into my account though.. so all i
really
> need is the buyer's card # to make it happen... the reason I just take
> mastercard is that Visa seemed to want me to have a massive line of credit
> in place before they'd take me on as a 'merchant account'... for some
reason
> this wasn't necessary with mastercard,, and I don't get Too many
complaints
> from people about that....
>
> In the states I write out the sales slips in U.S. Dollars so they don't
get
> too confused, and when I get home I do the conversion before phoning in
the
> sale...
>
> I'd recommend it...
>
> see ya
> James
>
>
>
> on 11/5/02 2:25 PM, Wild Mountain Thyme Productions at
> jennifer@wildmountainthyme.ca wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,  I'm looking for advice on taking credit card sales at gigs.
> > CDBaby is all set up to do this, providing everything you'd need but
> > they require sales to be reported in US dollars of course.  Conversion
> > isn't a problem really (www.xe.com) but I'm wondering if any of you have
> > a Canadian dollar alternative and/or if you've found folks don't mind
> > getting their credit card charged in US dollars.  Any tips most welcome.
> > Thanks and cheers!
> > Jennifer
>
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