NON-US merchant accounts?

[webDomain]

After auditing the European offers (for France and Austria), I found several providers (AtosOrigin for France and Mpay24 for Austria). Anyway, these providers cost more than any US third party providers (average of 10% per transaction + €0.5).

I was wondering:

Would it be better to open an US bank account to be able to get a US merchant account? If yes, how? Who should we contact? Is this legal?
Would it be better to continue with third party payment gateways and wait the opportunity, in a near future, to switch to a better EU offer (as soon as it will be available) ?
Is there any other EU alternatives I am not aware of?


This question is, I guess, a redundant question to all NON-US businesses. Some countries may offer interresting alternatives to their customers but here, in EU, it seems there is still a lack of offers.
Maybe I wasn't able to find the good providers and some members here already found the beauty pearl.

Please share your lucky finds. :D

[BannersWorld]

checkout "2checkout", they support international clients and don't need US account.

[webDomain]

Thank you BW.
We use already 2CO since 2002.
Anyway, their policy concerning frauds and chargebacks is way too risky for merchants.
We would like to get a "real" merchant account to get a better insurance concerning all these kind of fraudulent orders.
2CO, like PayPal, are third parties gateway. That's mainly why such policies are applied regarding frauds.
Actually, we signed for a merchant account with *********.
We will continue to use both processors (2CO and PayPal) and if we feel happy, secure and confortable with ********* we will switch to their system.

[dabihsss]

am from india , is there any merchant accounts suitable for me without any setup charges ?

[111host]

checkout "2checkout", they support international clients and don't need US account.

Yeah , I also want to post this :D

[[ts]glenn]

I personally find it hard to find a good reliable and trustworthy processor other then PayPal.

I live in Australia so most of the merchant services cost through the roof or are unavailable. I believe that PayPal, although fairly pricey in the long run, is a reliable and trustworthy processor even though technically it isn't a merchant payment processor.

[steveto]

2co is too expensive still and in the end, you will lose out.

Try internetsecure.com much better and more professional.

[thewebhostingdi]

Try ccavenue.com. This is based in India and a pretty good processor

[odishahost]

2checkout is not cheap but it has better fraud system then Paypal.
As in 99% of cases paypal will refund the money to the buyer, even if the buyer just used the hosting and simply doesn't want to pay for it. With 2CO you will have at least some chance.......