looking for 3rd party merchant account

April 30, 2004 9:31 AM

How's Charge.com for a third party merchant account to accept credit card payments online?

Googling turns up either marketing goop, or much older reviews from WHT's archives, but I'd like to know if any recent applicants have been using it for their small businesses.

posted by brownpau to Work & Money (2 answers total)

Brownpau: sorry we're not a very savvy cc processing lot. Charge.com's fees look pretty darn reasonable compared to a number of services out there. This is what you'd expect to pay for CC processing.

I think you might be able to find some whose monthly fees are less, but whose % take is larger. The tradeoff obviously depends on the volume you do.
posted by weston at 6:42 PM on April 30, 2004

Check with Costco, their Executive Membership includes credit card processing at what I've heard are very reasonable rates.
posted by kindall at 10:13 PM on April 30, 2004