Care to do a write-up of your setup, the decisions you made, and your recommenda...

rexreed · on March 23, 2011

It's exactly what I just said:

* We used FeeFighters to find a merchant account (ended up going with Merchant Focus). FeeFighters gets you a bunch of competitive bids. We only looked at the top three recommendations, read the reviews, and ended up going with the #1 recommendtion

* The application took one hour to complete, and was done entirely online. We followed up with a phone call to Merchant Focus to help expedite the app. It was approved and completed within 24 hours. No set up fees. Very competitive rates. No monthly minimums. Just a gateway fee and an Amex minimum plus the per-transaction fees.

* We had our Authorize.Net login within another 24 hours. We got any holds removed. I forgot how this happened, but it didn't seem that it was a huge hurdle.

* Once we had the Authorize.Net login, we signed up for Recurly. It took one hour to sign up.

* Integration with Recurly took a few days.

That's it.

mcdowall · on March 23, 2011

I think he pretty much has in his post already.

Feefighters, Recurly, Authorize.net, Amex