RE: FN-FORUM: HSBC payment provider - setup?

date posted 17th January 2006 16:54

Yes, but even if you do have a merchant account, then those fees suck as
well !

What I didn't know (until speaking to an IIB guy at this mornings BNI)
is that you can get charged different % rates if the customer is using a
corporate credit card compared to a personal one.

Cheers
Andy=20

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worldpay is a merchant service for those who do not have a merchant
account, hence their ridiculous prices

>
>>> Yes you do need a full ssl certificate and good luck.
>>
>> I don't believe that this is entirely true. Only if you are going to=20
>> post the c/c details to HSBC from your own site do you need SSL. They

>> also do an easier hosted solution whereby you post basic information=20
>> and the rest e.g. payment information is input on a HSBC page using
SSL.
>
> aha! - this is what i'm after... i couldn't understand why they don't=20
> seem to provide this type of plug-and-play non-SSL service. there must

> be lots of smaller ecommerce retailers who need a simple 'worldpay'=20
> style solution.
>
> can anyone confirm/deny that HSBC have this type of service?
>
> the HSBC documentation provided by the client is shockingly bad. the=20
> website is useless too.
>
> thanks
> cat
>
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