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Originally Posted by SwirlsGirl
Welcome to the industry, and if you have the ability, skip and by pass all of the processors mentioned here, and get a merchant account, I would be a lot happier these days, if that advice was given to me as a newbie.
Sadly you must learn the hard way in this biz, too many ways to take advantage of uninformed newbies, and i am familiar with most of the tricks.
Also make sure you get some tracking software and learn to analyze your stats, they are invaluable.
Nothing boils my blood more than a sincere newbie getting pointed in the wrong direction.
Get a merchant account if you can.... and best of luck!
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If you have the business sense to help manage your own account, I agree a merchant account is the solution that will yield you the most profit and flexibility. You will have ALOT more control over everything and pay about half of what is costs for 3rd party processing through an IPSP.
However, if you are just getting started and need to focus 100% on getting signups and making content, you may want to start with a reliable 3rd party processor such as Epoch, CCbill SEGpay, Verotel and others mentioned here. Once you have a about 3-6 months of processing under your belt and a bit of experience, a merchant account is certainly the way to go. When that time comes, please consider NETbilling. We have been in the industry for almost 13 years, servicing merchants strictly with their own merchant account and can offer you a complete solution.
Thank you, Mitch Farber
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