[ic] Advice please on whether Interchange is the right path

Ron Dorman sysadmin@csi1st.net
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 01:45:40 -0500


Dan B wrote:

> At 12:02 AM 3/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >The costs associated with using Verisign are the one thing that concern me at
> >this point in our selection.  We only have experience with one other processor
> >and it was not good.  It has been very difficult to dig up information or find
> >people willing to share their experiences with processors and which ones are
> >good, service and price wise.
>
> True.  Information has been hard to come by, but I would share these tips:
>
> 1. Costco credit card processing is cheap.  (But doesn't work out of the
> box with IC -- one would simply need to utilize their trivial HTTP POST for
> processing).
> 2. Verisign is medium-priced, but works (almost) out of the box with IC.
> 3. Verisign is willing to negotiate rates and fees (don't ask me how, I
> didn't do it).
>
> There has to be some massive online resource about this kind of thing that
> have pooled information.  (If not, there should be).

Amen!