business cheques no good?

[nightjar]

I would view customer demand as a very good reason for doing something.

Colin Bignell

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I just have their standard online home banking. Perhaps they think I shouldn't be buying anything from 'abroad'.

[Andy Hall]

I wonder how many electronic transactions that there are in comparison to those involving Bob Cratchit and his compadres, and what the rate of decline of the latter is.

[John Rumm]

nightjar It is also possible for the merchant to use an online payment service, of

Do you know of any that offer a service suitable for infrequent (i.e. less than 5/month) transactions of moderate size (few hundreds to low thousands)?

I have always thought it would be useful to allow our SME customers to pay by cc, but have never found a cost effective way of being able to offer the option. The systems I have looked at seem to either assume large numbers of smaller transactions, or go to the other extreme of requiring merchant accounts and PDQ terminals etc (rented at a monthly cost that would negate any benefit of having them) for larger transactions.