Accept a one off credit card payment

[vwdan]

Seems very odd they'd insist on CC but assume there's details we don't need to know

You could tell them "if you insist on doing it this foolish way it's gonna cost you"? I don't even know how you accept a credit card payment!

What Eek says I think - just US firms being US firms. Long story short is I wrote/own some software that I (occasionally - this is no retirement plan, sadly!) sell licences for, and in typical corporate fashion there's a complex chain of companies involved and the last one seems to want to use card.

Better than the time I sold it to a bank and they would only pay by cheque. Which took 3 months to arrive, then HSBC promptly lost so I had to request another. Imagine how funny I found that.

But yeah, I've basically done as you've said - added 3.5% for card, free if they just pay to my Wise USD account

[Sue B]

Long shot but if Sue B knows a lot about inter country payments maybe she's also come across situations like this as well? Sue B Any ideas?

Erm, not in this scenario, I do deal with a lot of international payments but have never come across this scenario, where the payment is being made to a credit card.... We send and receive international payments 99% of the time via bank transfer, and the remaining 1% of these will go via the likes of Equals FX cards, or similar.

[northernladuk]

Erm, not in this scenario, I do deal with a lot of international payments but have never come across this scenario, where the payment is being made to a credit card.... We send and receive international payments 99% of the time via bank transfer, and the remaining 1% of these will go via the likes of Equals FX cards, or similar.

Not like you to let us down Sue

[Sue B]

I’m know, I’m slipping!


Seriously though, I can’t think of any other time I have come across this, where a client making payment to a credit card is the only option, so if they are insisting, I would insist they pay the charges!

[eek]

I’m know, I’m slipping!


Seriously though, I can’t think of any other time I have come across this, where a client making payment to a credit card is the only option, so if they are insisting, I would insist they pay the charges!

I've seen it a lot in SaaS sale type situations, you have a manager willing to spend decent amounts of money to solve a problem but not wishing to suffer the other type of pain involved in getting accounting to pay the actual bill.

It's why you need to accept credit cards as a software provider...