eCommerce Tycoon

**WebDomain** · 08-02-2006, 09:53 AM

After auditing the European offers (for France and Austria), I found several providers (AtosOrigin for France and Mpay24 for Austria). Anyway, these providers cost more than any US third party providers (average of 10% per transaction + €0.5).

I was wondering:

Would it be better to open an US bank account to be able to get a US merchant account? If yes, how? Who should we contact? Is this legal?
Would it be better to continue with third party payment gateways and wait the opportunity, in a near future, to switch to a better EU offer (as soon as it will be available) ?
Is there any other EU alternatives I am not aware of?

This question is, I guess, a redundant question to all NON-US businesses. Some countries may offer interresting alternatives to their customers but here, in EU, it seems there is still a lack of offers.
Maybe I wasn't able to find the good providers and some members here already found the beauty pearl.

Please share your lucky finds.

**herbal_ali** · 08-07-2006, 12:54 PM

there is Chronopay but I've never tried it myself. Sorry i can't answer your other questions.

**WebDomain** · 08-08-2006, 12:16 PM

Thank you very much Ali.
We already applied a merchant account there.
Seems they are a robust company with the lowest rates around.

**!BC** · 08-11-2006, 05:10 PM

Godaddy now offers merchant accounts to international businesses. You might want to check them out.

**amedno1** · 08-19-2006, 11:15 AM

hey im going to check that out been looking for something for a while now ive heard moneybookers is really good but their verification process can be messed up

**cloe2006** · 09-06-2006, 09:33 AM

You just need to open a merchant account in your own country and check out one of these guys . . Credit Card Payment Gateway - Accept Online Credit Cards Payecom or Credit Card Payment Gateway • Accept Website Credit Card Payments Online. No cc transaction fees and it doesn't look like it matters what country you are in either.

Could be a simple answer to your prob

Cloe

**yenerich** · 09-22-2006, 01:07 AM

Paypal is not good enough for you?

I use paypal and the interesting thing is that many people uses it in the world.

You can use shareit and swreg.org too.

**andrewbowe** · 09-23-2006, 04:43 PM

i use 2checkout and it has worked for me well so far