RE: [cobalt-users] was Merchant Order Form - CC acceptance?

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is related to the Shopping cart thread that will work on a RaQ but
slightly off-topic.
For people that don't have their own merchant account and must use an online
service like ClickBank, Ibill, CCNow, etc. - which online merchant service
(like the ones above) would someone recommend... I've just got 2
requirements:
1. I don't have a merchant account so they'll have to accept credit cards
for me (and of course I'll pay a commission, yadda yadda)
2. I want to be able to send a shopping cart amount to the merchant. Say Joe
picks three things and his total comes up to $11. I want to be able to send
$11 to the service and let Joe pay for it, and be finished.

With the exception of PayPal (which doesn't offer instant credit card
payments unless you're a member and have gone through the verification, blah
blah blah), I haven't been able to find a service that will allow me to do
this. With ClickBank, for example, you have to hard-code each and every
product. If a customer wants more than one thing they have to pay for each
one individually. (Yechh.)

The only other option I've seen is places like safeshopper.com or
instabill.com (there are actually quite a few hosting companies using
instabill); but your entire cart is hosted on their server and you have to
'configure' it through their limited web-based options.

I just want to be able to have the customer on my site pick and add items to
his cart, then send the resulting total to a credit card service. (Like
Merchant Order Form does with PayPal.)  If I could find a service that will
allow me to do this, I could probably do the coding on my end to format the
query to the service.

Anyone know of such a place?
Carrie Bartkowiak