[ic] Suggestions for a payment gateway?

[Jeff Dafoe]

> Does anyone have any suggestions for or against a payment gateway
> or merchant provider for someone who doesn't currently have one?

    I like the bank of america gateway, which is called "estore settle-up".
Aside from the issue where they seem to set everyone's account up wrong the
first time (by giving it a full estore instead of just the gateway api),
it's pretty painless to implement.  And inexpensive too.  It costs me less
than $30 a month.  Since they are one of the major merchant banks they can
set up merchant accounts at the same time.
    I don't get a kickback or anything from this, but the boa rep I dealt
with, Margaret Carter at 804-515-2292 was the most pleasant person I think I
have dealt with on the phone in the last ten years.
    I suspect that this is probably more a topic for interchange-biz, not
sure though.  The relative ease at which boa is integrated versus some of
the others that require the installation of special libraries probably has
some relevancy here.  Plus the fact that I can answer questions about the
boa integration but not any of the others...

Jeff