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Yeah it's another possibility but not ideal.

I'm currently thinking about setting up some form of payment gateway that
allows the customer/client to sign up and send/receive payments, it'd be
very useful but I would imagine all sorts of legal implications.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Clive Hunt [mailto:clive.hunt at gmail.com] 
Sent: 23 April 2007 12:35
To: underscore at under-score.org.uk
Subject: Re: [_] [OT]Extracting regular payments

Could you accept payment via Paypal?

On 4/23/07, Tim Gaunt <info at thesitedoctor.co.uk> wrote:
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> Afternoon!
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> We've got a number of clients who pay a regular amount on a monthly (or
> annual) basis but there are one or two who will avoid paying on the basis
> of
> paperwork. I've spoken with the big chief and he has suggested setting up
> a
> direct debit which would make sense but having spoken with my bank I've
> been
> told that we're "not large enough" and I should request the client sets up
> a
> standing order instead which, other than a lot more work for my clients
> (making it less likely to happen) seems somewhat noddyish.
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> How do others here take regular monthly payments from their clients? I'm
> thinking about setting up a merchant account and using someone like Protx
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> process the payments but the additional cost involves just puts me off.
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> TIA
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> Tim
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> p.s. Yes I did use "extracting" on purpose as it's as painful as trying to
> extract teeth from what I've found so far.
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> p.p.s. The "baseball bat" method does work well but it's a fair distance
> to
> travel to some of my clients so unpractical on a monthly basis.
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