What was the name of the service that provided you with a free 800 number and credit card processing?

November 20, 2009 10:17 AM

What was the name of the service that provided you with a free 800 number and credit card processing? Their model was that they took a percentage of the credit card fees and you billed your customers through them. It was a very neat way to setup a small service business with almost no overhead. Are they still in business?
posted by thinktwice to computers & internet (6 comments total)

maybe you're thinking of Kagi?

I used their service a number of years ago and it was quite good, though it looks as though their model may have changed somewhat.
posted by 256 at 10:33 AM on November 20, 2009

You can do the same thing now on the web with Yahoo. They do web-hosting for your business, and if someone wants to buy from you, Yahoo processes the credit card transaction and takes a cut.

One of my friends runs his business through it, and it works very well.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:46 AM on November 20, 2009

Maybe ether.com?
posted by willem at 11:20 AM on November 20, 2009

Sorry, link should be this: ether.com
posted by willem at 11:21 AM on November 20, 2009

It's on the top of my tongue, weren't they overrun with psychics? (if that helps anyone else remember). I think they also ran ads on the sides of SF muni buses....
posted by bottlebrushtree at 11:50 AM on November 20, 2009

I think it was Ether. Thanks all. I will look into the Yahoo service as well.
posted by thinktwice at 10:32 AM on November 22, 2009