Our school would like to start accepting credit card payments during enrollment. What is a good way to do this?

THank you

We just used SQUARE to take credit cards during our auction and it was totally easy. Someone needed to have an i-phone to use it, but wow - piece of cake.

Hi, we have a thread from about a year ago with folks talking about the pros and cons of accepting credit cards and at least one community member had some names of vendors you might want to check out....

Take a look at:www.ptotoday.com/boards/35-auctions/1556...?limit=6&start=6

You might find some good information there!

Good luck!
Rose

This is something new for us too -- and we ultimately found that Paypal had the best rates (2.2% plus 30 cents per transaction) for non-profits, no long contracts or monthly fees for the basic account. They will also send a free smartphone or ipad card reader, for accepting cards at school open houses (or wherever you do sales of sportswear, etc)... They even have their own shopping cart setup, so you just create and sell.

I used Square (www.squareup.com) at an event recently--super easy to use there, and I was told it was easy to set up, but I didn't actually do the set up myself. I think it's good for a one time event where you have to swipe cards, but it's not what you would use if you want to accept credit cards on your website.

I've used PayPal with three different organizations, and had some issues with it, primarily because we needed to have a webmaster with some programming knowledge set it up on the site; not just any joe could go in and set it up. And all three organizations have had issues where people think they have paid for and purchased something, when, in fact, the transaction has not been completed.

At my school we are using www.Pay4SchoolStuffOnline.com, which works well for us. The fees are a little on the high side, but it's very user friendly and doesn't require any kind of programming knowledge to get it working.

Hi.
I am new to the group, but I would like to forewarn all schools thinking about both square and Paypal. Before signing up, please read the reviews. My group has personally had issues with both. Square will at times accept the payments and then hold them with no release date and Paypal at times will do the same.

I had had both positive and negative experiences with both companies. Please just do your due diligence beforehand so there are no surprises later on.

Thanks,

Tee