Alternatives to paypal for taking website payments?

[mum2mummarkets]

Paypal fees are amounting to £40 a month and I'm wondering if it might be more economical to find an alternative means of taking payments through my website.....
What do you use to take website payments? How much does it cost? And how do you find it?

I will need tobe able to make my own payment buttons with some kind of HTML generator tool
I've only just got to grips with Paypal so I'm a bit reluctant to swap

google checkout only works out cheaper than PayPal if you take more than 1500 p/m

skrill formerly moneybookers, slightly cheaper than paypal

Also make sure you have the right type of paypal account, if your average payment is under £10 get a micropayment account as the fees will work out cheaper (5% + 5p)

Thanks. Payments are mainly £25 each and averaging £600-700 per month.

Looks like I might be stuck with paypal? I will have a look at skrill though. Thanks

Have you looked at Nochex? It works the same way as Paypal but the fees are slightly lower- I offer both on my site, about a third of customers opt for Nochex.

I sell services and am selling through eventbrite - the charges can be passed on to the customer and/or incorporated into the cost of the goods/service. There's no sign-up fee and it's all VAT/invoice compatible.

Does anyone have experience of the Paypal card reader that they'd care to share with me.

I have an online business and work from home, but I'm moving to a studio in town and would like to be able to accept cc payments from customers who want to buy in person. I watched the little video on the paypal website, you need an iphone, looks almost too easy to be true!

Any thoughts welcome.

hello, no specific experience but would avoid Paypal like the plague due to their "fees".

Have a quick peek on ukbusinessforums (is that right?) - there are a few people there who run merchant systems for a lot cheaper than Paypal would.

There's also this sort of thing: www.boku.com/merchants/

And it would also be worth talking to your bank - although their fees will probably be around the same as Paypal. :(

paypal fees aren't too bad if you have a high turnover. Plus they are tax deductible anyway, but I guess any fees would be.

One major advantage of paypal is that it's trusted and you don't have to go and pick up your wallet and start typing in card numbers to purchase something, I think that's a plus in helping sales. I see even John Lewis has paypal at check out now.

i wouldn't think it was worth going for something 'slightly' cheaper than paypal if it means customer has to get up off sofa and find purse and card and all that carry on.

I do between 7 and 10k per month, but not sure what the limits are for when paypal starts to get cheaper, it might be like 2.5k then 5k.

Thanks- I had a look at the other options and I think sticking with paypal is probably the best.

I agree that the safety and instant payments make paypal worth it
Thanks