hello everyone, I have a big problem, im launching a hookah e-commerce web site and im not finding any merchant account. I live in Lebanon so not all merchant accounts support us and 2checkout ccnow.com and the big channels do not support hookah so does anyone know any company that can support hookah and Lebanese sellers? I found a company in Lebanon that process credit cards but they only process visa and master card so will i be missing a lot of customers and sales? Because they do not support discover, American express and dinners. My customers age are between 18 and 30 years old. Is there also a web site that gives a statistic on how many people use each type of credit card? The lebanese merchant site is really good for our business but im just afraid to miss sales by not accepting amex, discover and dinners
Many countries around the world have very strict policy as regards the trade in tobacco related products and so payment processors would shy away from facilitating the transaction in the same. I also wonder how you intend to take up export of such products into many countries who do not look kindly to such products? If you intend to make the trades locally within your country... then I guess a facility like bank transfer would be sufficient. Regards, RightMan
No country has problems with such product, we used to sell using paypal but we are to get out of them. We looked for authorize.net but not sure if they accept international sellers? Are master card and visa enough on a web site or american express and other type are a must to not loose sales?Thanks a lot.
Visa and Master card have excellent reach and I guess.. accepting payments through them should be sufficient enough... to do international business! Regards, RightMan
Thanks. Do you process credit cards? per exemple on 100 sales how many will pay by american express or discover? like 1 to 5 of them? I just want to know a little more of details.