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What are some options for taking payments on my website?
What's a good payment gateway for an e-commerce shop with revenues of about 10.000 euros per week ?
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What are some options for taking payments on my website?
What's a good payment gateway for an e-commerce shop with revenues of about 10.000 euros per week ?
Website payments standard is fine... its essentially a regular merchant account with some paypal add ons.
I would suggest getting a real merchant account. From a bank or a rep that offers them. In the USA paysimple and braintreemerchants have great reputations.
The merchant account usually will have a preferred gateway. The most popular is authorize.net, USAepay is a great choice also. The gateway is really a virtual front end to the merchant account. Allows you to process cards through a user interface or a programming interface.
The reason to go with a real merchant account now is although you may pay a bit more in fees than paypal, in the long run you could save money. The industry of payments is changing and it will not be tough to re-negotiate your rates wiht your merchant account or switch to someone that offers "interchange-plus-pricing" for their merchant accounts.
PayPal because:
See my answer here.
PayPal works only with 'good' countries. exUSSR countries Arabic and African countries can just pay. https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/
Try using Gogopay Payment Gateway where rates of transaction for European customers in 2.6% and payouts for merchants are done weekly. They accept major credit cards and also net banks from Denmark.