Accept credit cards online for your inspection business

Get more inspections and get paid faster! If you get just one more inspection because you accept credit cards, then it will easily pay for itself. Everyone hates being a bill collector. You can make it easier to collect payment with credit cards. You can collect before the inspection and never wait for closing again.

How does it work?

You can use the merchant account in the different ways below.

• Include a "Pay Now" button on your HomeGauge web page to allow anyone to submit a payment to you at any time.
• Send out an email requesting payment with the amount due and a link that will take the person straight to your payment page allowing them to pay online instantly.
• Block viewing of an uploaded report until payment has been made. If the customer has not made the payment, they will be able to pay online at that time and view the report right away.
• You can also sign in to the payment gateway (Authorize.net) and process a credit card manually if it was given to you over the phone. When you sign in you will also be able to see reports of all your transactions.

What you will need to accept credit cards through HomeGauge:

1. A merchant account. This is where the client's money goes and then it is transferred to your bank account. This must be a "Card not present merchant account" or "internet" type of account.
2. A Payment gateway. This is the service that takes the credit card off of the Internet and processes the transaction in the normal processing route. The payment gateway that HomeGauge supports is Authorize.Net.

HomeGauge can help you get both of these, see below.

If you do not want to take advantage of the "Force Payment" feature, you can get your credit card service at wherever you desire. If you do want to use the "Force Payment" feature you must use HomeGauge Services and use a payment gateway called "Authorize.net". Then choose your merchant account. They currently have over 5000 merchants that you can sign up with. In addition to a percentage of amount billed to card, each typically charges a monthly fee, cancellation fee, early termination fee so be sure and read the fine print of "Terms of Service" with whomever you decide to use. More info here

Why don't we use PayPal?
PayPal is not a bank. They can freeze your money for whatever reason they want.
PayPal limits your withdrawals to $500 a month without positive feedback.
PayPal is good for selling things, but is not oriented or practical for business use.