Receiving payments online- RESPONSES
Randy McFarland
Description
Collection
Title:
Receiving payments online- RESPONSES
Creator:
Randy McFarland
Date:
7/24/2004
Text:
ORIGINAL POST
We allow payments by check and by credit card in person, via the mail
and by telephone. While I suspect that this may not be cost effective
(we don't have the volume of an online retailer), I'm wondering if any O
and P facilities offer the option of making secure payments online, via
their website, like via credit card or PayPal?
Thanks, Randy McFarland,CPO Fullerton, CA
RESPONSES:
Secure payments. That is something we all need to watch. Please
understand, I am very guarded. We are presently dealing with an
embezzlement situation and I do not want what this person did to us to
happen to anyone else if I can help it. One of her more profitable
schemes involved credit cards. When we were paid by credit cards, she
would reverse the charges right away to her own personal cards. Net
batch for the day is of course zero so nothing shows up on bank
statements. She intercepted credit card statements. Being a small
company and trusting... we got screwed. CC fees were small so I did
not catch until cc was changed. Online sounds great, as long as you
have a good handle on things.
We've begun using a much more effective and profitable system. We now
BARTER for chickens, loaves of bread, powdered milk, cookies, fresh
fruits and vegetables, etc. This has proved to be a very good system
for us. Please feel free to share this with others if you should chose
to post the replies.
I looked into this service for one of my clients, and it was cost
prohibitive unless there is going to be a lot of people making payments
this
way. We ended up creating a secure web page that would ask for the
check or
credit card information, save the data, and allow someone at the site to
process all the on-line payments at once. It still requires some manual
work, but it can all be done at once instead of having to stop what you
are
doing when the patient calls with a payment. Jay Snider
We allow payments by check and by credit card in person, via the mail
and by telephone. While I suspect that this may not be cost effective
(we don't have the volume of an online retailer), I'm wondering if any O
and P facilities offer the option of making secure payments online, via
their website, like via credit card or PayPal?
Thanks, Randy McFarland,CPO Fullerton, CA
RESPONSES:
Secure payments. That is something we all need to watch. Please
understand, I am very guarded. We are presently dealing with an
embezzlement situation and I do not want what this person did to us to
happen to anyone else if I can help it. One of her more profitable
schemes involved credit cards. When we were paid by credit cards, she
would reverse the charges right away to her own personal cards. Net
batch for the day is of course zero so nothing shows up on bank
statements. She intercepted credit card statements. Being a small
company and trusting... we got screwed. CC fees were small so I did
not catch until cc was changed. Online sounds great, as long as you
have a good handle on things.
We've begun using a much more effective and profitable system. We now
BARTER for chickens, loaves of bread, powdered milk, cookies, fresh
fruits and vegetables, etc. This has proved to be a very good system
for us. Please feel free to share this with others if you should chose
to post the replies.
I looked into this service for one of my clients, and it was cost
prohibitive unless there is going to be a lot of people making payments
this
way. We ended up creating a secure web page that would ask for the
check or
credit card information, save the data, and allow someone at the site to
process all the on-line payments at once. It still requires some manual
work, but it can all be done at once instead of having to stop what you
are
doing when the patient calls with a payment. Jay Snider
Citation
Randy McFarland, “Receiving payments online- RESPONSES,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/223418.
