How want the people pay?

Payment, which type?

This is very clear: Credit card, Bank transfer and Cash on delivery. It is not very common here to pay with credit card, but for me it's unimaginable not to have this possibility. So it is part of the application functionality list and has to be done. What I didn't know - it is not cheap. You've to pay for each transaction at least 4% of the transaction value. I never thaught of that before. So take care what you do.

I've chosen the best known company in Romania for epayment - GECAD. They have different contract alternatives, depending of the functionalities you want and the number of transactions. Together with CANDOO (with the needed interface knowhow between Magento software and GECAD) we decided to go in the first step with the basic option and with payment for each transaction.

A contract has to be signed and for that you need to give some informations, like: Cod CAEN, Company name, Owner, Adress .... This is OK. But for the next questions I was not prepared yet. eMail adress for the clients, contact person for the clients, phone number ... So next question which had to be answered. Which eMail adresses are needed? Which email adress to put on the site, which phone number ...
We have now: office@tinker.ro (for all mails sent to the clients), support@tinker.ro (contact/support for the clients), payment@tinker.ro (only for GECAD payment and reports).

ToDo's:

• decide payment type
• sign contract with epayment company
• decide OnlineShop emails

Conclusions:

• epayment is not cheap
• software company should have epayment interface knowhow