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Review of 2Checkout (New Window) money service
2checkout is a third party money processing service, this means many advantages and many disadvantages... Please do not rush into using this before you fully understand your options...

About money processing: Money processing over the internet is a complex issue, why ? because the seller has to contact your bank and validate that you are indeed able to make the purchase, and that you are entitled to pay with that credit card, Technically this requires a big network, the seller needs a processor that should be updated at great speeds, connected to all bank networks (like visa or master card for example), There is a simple sollution to that though, a one step simpler sollution is to get a professional third party made sollution, like one from verisign, A much simpler sollution would be to have someone else process money requests, collect the money and send them to you !

2checkout is the later, according to our (small) study till now, it is reasonably priced (that's why we decided to use it ourselves), Once we review more we will keep you informed.

here is a list of the advantages / disadvantages of having your money processed by a third party ( 2checkout ), after that we will present you of our own (third party) review of the service

You should also understand that you have many other choices, it is just that we have not tried any of the others (so we didn't review them) just yet, we started with 2checkout because it is the most widely used third party money processing provider, and it seems good.

Disadvantages
  Less flexibility  
  lower fees if you are not selling much, when your sales grow, you are really paying more  
  Bad for products under $5 ! you already pay .45 cents for each sale  
  Your customers see the processor's (2checkout) page, even though they feel more secure, they also know that you are not at a level of accepting cards on your own like Amazon.com for example ! just a bit unprofessional.  
  You don't get to keep user statistics  
Advantages
  The first and most obvious advantage is as you can imagine is the PRICE, You only pay $50 startup, then 0.45 per Sale in addition to 5.5% of every sale.  
  The ease of use ! You do not need to know how accepting credit cards on the internet is done, You also need not know how to implement a money sollution, All you need to know is paste a code they give you on your pages, and optionally receive the information back on your pages if you like, if not you will get the orders by Email or through the 2checkout control panel, either way it does not need a wizard to do it.  
  It already works with some shopping carts  
  Supports Recurring Billing  
  International Suppliers Accepted  
  Instant activation  
  People trust them  
  You are not responsible for stolen credit cards, they are