best 'hidden' payment processor.

[Burden]

hello

i want to be able to accept payments on my website but i dont want the customer to be taken away from my page and want to do it all on there.

whats the cheapest way to do this?
do you need a bank merchant account to do all of them - please state if yes or no ? this is my main problem as i wanted to do protx but the bank wanted £250 signup cost.. any ideas.

any info would be great.

not sure if paypal required a merchant account with the bank for payments pro

Thanks
Mark

[Mindless]

The HSBC offer a very similar service to protx for the same price. Maybe they wont charge for the merchant account if you are going to use their Ecommerce its worth checking out and its fully intergratable

[Astaroth]

No, PayPal Pro doesnt require you to have a merchant account so it is a fairly reasonable option if you dont want to go down the full merchant account route

[Christiane]

No, PayPal Pro doesnt require you to have a merchant account so it is a fairly reasonable option if you dont want to go down the full merchant account route


I thought they did. When I applied for Paypal Web Pro, they opened one with HSBC whom they deal with to process the payments for the Web pro side of the business :| Now I don't think the guy was supposed to tell me, it's because it took so long to set up that I kept querying it and someone mentioned HSBC was involved :|

I don't use Paypal We pro anymore though.

[Astaroth]

They certainly dont require you to have one, though I cannot say if they dont open one on your behalf as I havent read the terms and conditions in a long time.

I wouldnt be very surprised if they arent doing something similar but be it a full merchant account or some form of *******isation I dont know.... if it is a merchant account it must be a pain for them with offering the 3 channels plus reoccuring transactions which should technically all have their own IDs

[Page]

I think HSBC is the partner behind paypal (pro)

But your relationship is all with paypal.