Re: [tlug] ecommerce, payment gateway, merchant account

[e_davies@example.com]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:19:36 +0900
David E <dave@?om> wrote:

> 2005/01/07 (金) 19:14 に e_davies@example.com さんは書きました:
> 
> > To be able to accept credit card payments, an ecommerce site must have a payment gateway and and merchant account.
> > Both of which seem to be very expensive here in Japan.
> > The are reasonably priced bundled bundled solutions available in the US, but I have yet to find any here in Japan...any ideas? anyone?
> 
> Have you looked into some of the offshore services that will allow
> payments in Yen? WorlPay is one. I think there are other similar
> services around as well.
> 
> http://www.worldpay.com/asiapac_hk/shopping/index.php

I did check out Worldpay.
I may have no choice but to use them.
Their fees are quite high for transactions in yen, and all settlement is
done in US$, so I'm likely to take a hit on the currency conversion as
well.