Accepting credit card payments?

anyone using square (http://squareup.com )? They're not the absolute cheapest, but they're pretty good about being straightforward and generally non-evil. (no you don't have to use their card reader, you can do card number transactions & no merchant acct is required)
 
I'm talking to braintree.com to set up a merchant account with them. Heard lot of good things and at the very least, I'd like to have an alternative in case paypal decides to hold our payment.
 
anyone using square (http://squareup.com )? They're not the absolute cheapest, but they're pretty good about being straightforward and generally non-evil. (no you don't have to use their card reader, you can do card number transactions & no merchant acct is required)
It is available in United States and DC only so it is not attractive...
 
If Xenforo offered direct integration with Authorize.net or other merchant account providers, then that would become a big differentiator and selling point for Xenforo. So far no other forum software uses anything except for Paypal, and many forum owners are looking for another solution. There have been horror stories of paypal holding accounts hostage and cutting off streams of revenue.

Also, many people are already using the forum more like a full CMS with the portal add-on, etc., and want to set-up a paid membership site and control access to their content and handle their own payments. Thinking of Xenforo as simply a forum software is very limited and short-sighted. There is no reason why it can't be much more, as all of the basic components are the same (text, video, community interaction, content, threads, profiles, etc.)

Look at Membergate at http://www.membergate.com (a membership site platform, which costs hundreds a month). With a few tweaks Xenforo could easily replicate their full functionality at a fraction of the cost and capture the paid-content market and people looking to start their own membership site.

Simply adding Authorize.net integration would be a good start, other things could come later (CMS, etc.).
 
The payment provider options should include: paypal, authorize.net, 2checkout, clickbank, moneybookers, chargify, and recurly. That should cover about 99 percent of people's needs and give us a choice.
 
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