by Robert Bond on April 27, 2012
So where’s the shirts? HERE! HERE’s your stinkin’ shirts, alright?!
Wild, needless outbursts aside, even in the face of never-ending tasks and complications (like the paypal one mentioned in our previous post), we’ve managed to produce our own neck labels and get them pressed into the collars of the shirts for our first run!
Speaking of this first run, I won’t reveal what’s to be printed, but as soon as the final website upgrades are made for our new payment gateway, production will start, and then the site will launch.
Baby steps, baby steps!
by Robert Bond on April 27, 2012
PayPal is one of those things that SHOULD be an extremely powerful ally to people who want to process credit card payments online. Turns out it’s exactly what budding entrepreneurs need it to be, and one thing they definitely don’t want it to be: broken.
I don’t want to get into all boring details, but let it suffice to say that PayPal kind of “shit the bed” with an important client of mine. It was a payment “Send Limit” issue, and there was apparently “nothing to be done” about it.
I will concede that the customer support wait times were refreshingly minimal, but that does not detract from the fact that both my client and I came away from the situation in a very frustrated and confused state. And this is not anything new for PayPal. They’ve made many improvements over the years, but they’re clearly still more interested in getting my customers to sign up and sign in than they are in simplifying everyone’s experience and getting merchants their money; which is baffling since they get 3% of every transaction! What good is a payment processor that doesn’t process payments, I ask you?!
So at this point, the options are: GIVE our products and services away, or sign up for a legit merchant account and work flexibly from this point on. The decision was obvious to us, and within the next few weeks, we should be all signed up with Moneris Solutions (who’ve been very helpfull, and are surprisingly affordable) and able to process payments the right way. This of course will require some hours to implement on mindfull.co, but I believe it’s worth it.
More launch and product updates soon!
by Robert Bond on April 18, 2012
Episode #8 of Mindfull.
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