Ang
10-16-2003, 11:17 PM
I've looked at the merchantquest.com and rsmarketing.com site and well, I'm still a little confused.
I'm trying to set up a site to which people can come and basically sign up for one of 2 types of subscriptions. The first type of subscription would entail people paying a set fee and having access to the service for 3 months. 2 weeks before the 3 months expired, they would be sent an email to remind them and if they wanted to extend their subscription for 3 more months, they could by paying a fee again. The second type of subscription would involve an initial set up fee and then a monthly fee (automated if the user wanted) until the subscription was cancelled.
I want the customers to be able to submit all of the billing information on my site and from what I've seen paypal does not allow this (plus I've heard horror stories about them freezing accounts). So I've been trying to find out what I would need for this to work - but I still have a lot of questions.
1.) Would I need a shopping cart program since I'm not selling products and don't need to track more than one choice?
2.) Does Miva Merchant process the credit card payments or would I need another service to do that?
3.) Do I need to buy a separate secure server certificate or is that included in the Miva Merchant fees? If it's included, is it a shared certificate?
4.) According to one of the pages I read, I would still need a merchant account configured for Authorize.net payment services. Is there a provider of merchant accounts that futurequest.com (or anyone else reading this) recommends? Also, if I set up a merchant account to be used with online payments, could we also use that same merchant account for credit card payments at our office?
5.) How easy is it to work with Miva merchant as far as interacting with other databases? For instance, based on how much the customer paid, we would need our customer database to keep track how far they are paid up to and send out emails when subscriptions were about to run out.
6.) Is there a demo of Miva Merchant or screen shots of how it works anywhere?
7.) Is there anything else I will need or should be aware of while I'm setting this up?
I'm trying to set up a site to which people can come and basically sign up for one of 2 types of subscriptions. The first type of subscription would entail people paying a set fee and having access to the service for 3 months. 2 weeks before the 3 months expired, they would be sent an email to remind them and if they wanted to extend their subscription for 3 more months, they could by paying a fee again. The second type of subscription would involve an initial set up fee and then a monthly fee (automated if the user wanted) until the subscription was cancelled.
I want the customers to be able to submit all of the billing information on my site and from what I've seen paypal does not allow this (plus I've heard horror stories about them freezing accounts). So I've been trying to find out what I would need for this to work - but I still have a lot of questions.
1.) Would I need a shopping cart program since I'm not selling products and don't need to track more than one choice?
2.) Does Miva Merchant process the credit card payments or would I need another service to do that?
3.) Do I need to buy a separate secure server certificate or is that included in the Miva Merchant fees? If it's included, is it a shared certificate?
4.) According to one of the pages I read, I would still need a merchant account configured for Authorize.net payment services. Is there a provider of merchant accounts that futurequest.com (or anyone else reading this) recommends? Also, if I set up a merchant account to be used with online payments, could we also use that same merchant account for credit card payments at our office?
5.) How easy is it to work with Miva merchant as far as interacting with other databases? For instance, based on how much the customer paid, we would need our customer database to keep track how far they are paid up to and send out emails when subscriptions were about to run out.
6.) Is there a demo of Miva Merchant or screen shots of how it works anywhere?
7.) Is there anything else I will need or should be aware of while I'm setting this up?