OT (ish): Foreign bank acc. for Foreign business

If I set up a site that is targetting foreign customers and I need to take
money from them, what's the best way?

1. Set up a Worldpay account so I can accept credit card payments
2. Accept credit card payments via Paypal (yuck)
3. Set up a foreign bank account so people can pay by cheque (a bit messy
and would have to figure out where they send cheques to - can't expect them
to send cheques abroad.)

Any ideas?
ta
Mark

"Brothermark" <yonnermark (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

If I set up a site that is targetting foreign customers and I need to take
money from them, what's the best way?

1. Set up a Worldpay account so I can accept credit card payments
2. Accept credit card payments via Paypal (yuck)
3. Set up a foreign bank account so people can pay by cheque (a bit messy
and would have to figure out where they send cheques to - can't expect
them
to send cheques abroad.)

Any ideas?
ta
Mark

If you are serious then set up a proper merchants account. That way you can

accept debit and credit cards, refund cards for the full amount or part of
it, and have safety measures like address lookup.


Regards

Eddie
http://www.softdata.co.uk The Gloucestershire Portal
http://www.soft-data.net/ Software & Internet

"Brothermark" <yonnermark (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

If I set up a site that is targetting foreign customers and I need to take
money from them, what's the best way?

1. Set up a Worldpay account so I can accept credit card payments
2. Accept credit card payments via Paypal (yuck)
3. Set up a foreign bank account so people can pay by cheque (a bit messy
and would have to figure out where they send cheques to - can't expect
them
to send cheques abroad.)

Any ideas?
ta
Mark

Worldpay is probably easiest for multicurrency, especially if you have a
home based business with little or no track record (i don't know if this is
the case or not!). What you are selling will influence % rate and deferment
period. Have a look at something I put together here:
http://www.runtimeuk.com/index_trading_online.asp

(Or google for 'trading online help' - we're top 8-p)

Good luck,
--
Andy


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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:07:19 GMT, "SoftData" <me (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

If you are serious then set up a proper merchants account. That way you can
accept debit and credit cards, refund cards for the full amount or part of
it, and have safety measures like address lookup.

You get the above with Worldpay? Though their address lookup for
foreign credit cards is crap!!

David
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