Need help with how to take payment

[eince]

Hi I have an idea that in my spare time I will go around to businesses and tell them that I can design and print them things like business cards, leaflets, etc. However I do not have a website and I am more like the middleman and would like to take payment there and then and deliver it afterwards. How can I assure them that they will get there product or if I were to take the order and then deliver it and take payment after how can I be sure they are going to pay me and I am not just going to make their leaflet or whatever and they dont pay me. Thanks

 

[msp-nick]

Try setup a small little simple website with a card payment via paypal, or paypal have a card terminal, which again is quite good, goes straight in and can be withdrawn straight away.

paypal uk/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader

This could benefit you.

 

[eince]

I see what you mean and I like the paypal card reader idea which I will buy in the future but I would like to know if theres any legal cash way so I can test if this idea works and if businesses buy thanks

 

[japancool]

You could print some leaflets off and hand them out.

 

[eince]

Yes but how would that help me with taking payment

 

[Scalloway]

Yes but how would that help me with taking payment

You need to have customers before you start taking payments. I would not place business with someone who just turned up at my door with nothing to show how their business worked.

 

[japancool]

Legal cash way? They give you folding pictures of the queen's head, you put it into your pocket.

Then you give them what they paid for.

How you persuade that that you're not a conman and you're actually worth the money is a whole other discussion.

 

[msp-nick]

Majority of business want a way to charge back if something goes wrong, so I suggest paying in cash wouldn't work, you'd definitely want to get a card machine..

 

[japancool]

Or payment on delivery.

 

[eince]

You see what im worried about payment on delivery is what if they dont pay me if there was something that meant they had to pay me it would be great

 

[japancool]

You mean, "a contract"?