An Odd Question about CCBill Signup Forms

[Linkster]

It would be interesting to know why anyone would start a paysite using their personal name as the account - if youre going to do business - treat it as a business and use the name of the company - if I were a surfer I certainly wouldnt want to buy a membership from Joe Blow - Id much prefer to see a company name (adds confidence to the buyer when signing up). If paying an extra $750 would affect the bottom line that much I would also have some concerns about the biz model in the first place |goodidea

[es88]

Originally Posted by Linkster

It would be interesting to know why anyone would start a paysite using their personal name as the account - if youre going to do business - treat it as a business and use the name of the company

When the site was started many years ago, I didn't have a business name, but it didn't matter one way or the other. CCBill didn't present any of this information to the surfer when they visited the signup form. The form was mostly customizable by the webmaster and you could put pretty much whatever you wanted on there. On my form, I had the name of my site along with my logo, matching graphics, etc.. Everything was seamless, no worries.

Things started to change when Visa started their new program concerning "high risk" sites and IPSPs (the $750 registration fee, etc.). By that point in time I had a business name, but things had been just fine and so there wasn't any apparent reason to update with them.

At some point, CCBill tied all of this stuff together with Visa and put the name on file onto the signup form. For years beforehand, none of this mattered. So yeah, if I'd have known they were going to do this, or they'd warned me that these changes to the signup form would be coming, I'd surely have updated them with my business name.

- if I were a surfer I certainly wouldnt want to buy a membership from Joe Blow - Id much prefer to see a company name (adds confidence to the buyer when signing up).

Agreed. That's kind of why I posted here to begin with. At any rate, we're really talking about some fine print at the top and bottom of the form. I doubt it's deterring many surfers, but I'd like to fix it nonetheless. My main concern here is privacy.

If paying an extra $750 would affect the bottom line that much I would also have some concerns about the biz model in the first place |goodidea

No, $750 wouldn't affect my bottom line that much. But my business model does include spending money wisely. I need to make a very simple change to the information that CCBill/Visa has on file, and I think it's just a little bit ridiculous that $750 is required to have it done. I'd rather not just throw money away (if at all possible). Thus, my post here.

I'm hoping that someone here might know a little bit more about dealing with CCBill and/or Visa concerning this situation.

Thanks again.