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Hostgator offers free merchant acct for resellers -- any others?
| Posted by AnmolTech, 01-08-2006, 08:52 PM |
| I just noticed the "free merchant acct" for resellers on Hostgator website. So i am assuming that we do not need a seperate merchant account etc.
Any others resellers that offer FREE merchant acct? bliksem offers free merchant acct???
pl reply
thanks
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| Posted by Lev, 01-08-2006, 09:26 PM |
| I believe they simply offer a PayPal account, which is free in any case.
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| Posted by StackHost, 01-08-2006, 10:03 PM |
| I did not know that. Maybe we'll start offering "free merchant accounts" as well
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| Posted by HybridReseller, 01-08-2006, 10:26 PM |
| Unfortunately, there are no true "free" merchant accounts, and they're a marketing ploy at best.
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| Posted by ScottJ, 01-08-2006, 11:45 PM |
| Its just a paypal account, you can get a 2checkout account for a one time fee of $49
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| Posted by cunning, 01-09-2006, 05:34 PM |
| May be you can give a try searching deeper on the offers board for the free merchant account.
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| Posted by lcryan, 01-09-2006, 07:51 PM |
| I don't think any host really offers free merchant accounts or else you pay for it with your monthly billings its just basicly included.
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| Posted by Apoc, 01-09-2006, 08:07 PM |
| A (real) merchant account is not cheap so I also doubt you're going to find that anywhere at all, indeed. You might be able to find some 3rd party processors but not a real merchant though, I highly doubt that.
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| Posted by Aussie Bob, 01-09-2006, 08:26 PM |
| They do disclose that it's PayPal, so they're not trying to hide it. Although IMO, it's a stretch calling PayPal a "merchant account".
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| Posted by Trophimus, 01-09-2006, 08:41 PM |
| I do know that some clients offer Clientexce which is also similar. However, I do know that Xeserve offres something called Host Admin, I am asumming that is something similar
Cheers,
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| Posted by Apoc, 01-09-2006, 08:47 PM |
| That's not similar really. Clientexec is a billing system, which is not free. So if a company provides that for free, it is an actual benefit to the customer.
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| Posted by tommyd, 01-09-2006, 10:36 PM |
| Merchant Accounts are rather cheap, and free to setup in most cases if you shop them around. The key is the monthly fees, 99% charge a monthly statement fee, than per transacation fee, and transacation discount rates.
2co is same concept, per trasnacation fee and discount rate.
Now in all reality PayPal does now have a new Virtual Terminal which is a true merchant account in many ways.
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| Posted by TonyB, 01-09-2006, 11:36 PM |
| That's sneaky
Next time we update our site I'm going to make sure free merchant account is added I'll give a direct link to paypal upon account creation.
I wonder if anyone has been surprised when they order and find out the merchant account is just paypal.
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| Posted by Lev, 01-10-2006, 12:06 AM |
| That is how I know, never hurts to check up on the competition . In all reality, I agree that it is sneaky.
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| Posted by Shaw Networks, 01-11-2006, 10:46 PM |
| Wow, I didn't think you were serious at first. That's one hell of a marketing ploy.
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| Posted by DefconMatrix, 01-15-2006, 07:07 AM |
| There is so much fraud on webhosting orders that you could find yourself losing a merchant account from too many chargebacks. Using Paypal does cut down on the chargebacks. Cash eliminates it!
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| Posted by AnmolTech, 01-15-2006, 09:25 PM |
| what exactly is the "transaction discount rate"??
thanks
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| Posted by ldcdc, 01-15-2006, 09:45 PM |
| Some pages that contain definitions for the term "discount rate" in relation to merchant acounts:
http://www.infomerchant.net/creditca...countrate.html
http://www.findmyhosting.com/web-res...t-merchant.htm
http://www.merchantseek.com/merchant_accounts_rates.htm
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| Posted by JordanSS, 01-15-2006, 09:50 PM |
| I believe that when one is looking for a host he askes around.
When you see somebody is giving you something that has a particular value aren't you asking more questions about that?
If you order and THEN you find out it was paypal that means that you did not research at all.
Spend 5 minutes on hostgator's site and you will see it is a paypal account. They are not trying to hide anything... and I am sure the 24 hours support will tell you that if you ask.
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| Posted by cunning, 01-16-2006, 12:59 PM |
| Agree. the more you look for, the more you come up with questions,
Is there anything that you arn't happy with hostgator
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| Posted by JordanSS, 01-16-2006, 01:02 PM |
| I am not with them curently.
I was there customer however.
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