[AusNOG] Merchant facilities, card services closure, etc.

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

Eway is pretty simple to setup, and you can setup recurring payments no
problems.

Another one for recurring payments, especially if you're paper based, is
ezidebit.com.au

On 27 July 2016 at 16:39, David Hughes <david at hughes.com.au> wrote:

>
> I’ve used Eway in the past (in fact the AusNOG conference merchant
> services were run through them for years).  Simple web API that you can hit
> from lots of existing billing platforms or from a script in your language
> of choice.  No complaints from me.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> David
> ...
>
> > On 27 Jul 2016, at 3:39 PM, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm guessing there's still a few of the "smaller" operators on this list.
> >
> > Had a (legit) call from my bank this morning, advising me that the
> ancient old "paper" system I've been using for 26 years will cease to exist
> in 2 months.
> >
> > Seems the "card services" group (run by the credit card institutions
> themselves, not by the banks) is shutting down. I don't have a huge number
> of credit card transactions each month, but more than enough that manually
> punching them into a phone or POS terminal just ain't gunna happen, and
> same for doing it a card at a painful time through some web interface.
> >
> > My old system used to simply spit out fully printed "merchant summary
> slips" that only needed folded and slipped into the provided envelope - no
> human interaction beyond a quick visual scan of each page (25 transactions
> per page).
> >
> > I just want a simple system where a card, and an amount, can be shot to
> "somewhere" and processed, ideally with a receipt/accepted or
> declined/rejected response. One at a time that can be automated, or a
> batch, I don't care. Real-time or offline, I don't particularly mind.
> >
> > I'm happy to change to (or open an additional facility with) another
> institution. I don't really care if it's a bank or not, as long as they're
> reputable, honest and easy to deal with while setting it up (and their fees
> are comparable with or less than I pay now <grin>).
> >
> > Anyone else facing the same problems? I don't want to go down the
> direct-debit route, the majority of my customers currently either send dead
> trees, or do EFT, it's just a few hundred cards that linger...
> >
> > TIA
> > RossW
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