Bryan Daugherty
April 25th, 2010, 03:29 PM
Hello Friends, I am hoping to get some insight and recommendations from you. In the past, I have processed Credit Cards for clients though Paypal or our Online Store hosted by Exposure Manager (http://www.exposuremanager.com). For the last few years we have been chasing a large client for a 4 day event that included photography and videography services and sales. This year we got it and it occurs in 5 weeks. I have spent the last year researching merchant accounts and point of sale (POS) options and keep going round and round.
I keep coming back to Intuit QuickBooks Cash Register Plus (http://quickbooks.intuit.com/product/accounting-software/small-business/pos-cash-registers-plus/) and their Point of Sale Merchant Account (http://payments.intuit.com/products/quickbooks-payment-solutions/point-of-sale-system.jsp). We will have close to 800 attendees at this event who will want to buy merchandise and photographs on-site over the 4 day event and it is not something we can run through Paypal or our online store system. The problem is, once this event is over we may not have high volume sales again for many months. I am ok with paying monthly fees and such to get the % fee down but I don't want to run into problems when our sales go from $20,000-$50,000 to $0-$1200 after the event nor do I want to encounter a revenue/processing freeze if our processing spikes.
Who do you guys recommend for processing event sales? Has anyone used Cash Register Plus from Intuit? What was your experience like?
I keep coming back to Intuit QuickBooks Cash Register Plus (http://quickbooks.intuit.com/product/accounting-software/small-business/pos-cash-registers-plus/) and their Point of Sale Merchant Account (http://payments.intuit.com/products/quickbooks-payment-solutions/point-of-sale-system.jsp). We will have close to 800 attendees at this event who will want to buy merchandise and photographs on-site over the 4 day event and it is not something we can run through Paypal or our online store system. The problem is, once this event is over we may not have high volume sales again for many months. I am ok with paying monthly fees and such to get the % fee down but I don't want to run into problems when our sales go from $20,000-$50,000 to $0-$1200 after the event nor do I want to encounter a revenue/processing freeze if our processing spikes.
Who do you guys recommend for processing event sales? Has anyone used Cash Register Plus from Intuit? What was your experience like?