easyhosting Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Hi all, Just a note about a letter i recived today from Payoffline. Dear Niceday Hosting RE: CONTRACT FOR THE PROVISION OF PAYOFFLINE SERVICES For various commercial reasons we have reached a decision that we will unfortunately be unable to continue to provide PayOffline services after 31st March 2012. In the circumstances we heaeby provide you with 90 days notice for termination of the services under the contract in accordance with our standards terms and conditions. Yours faithfully <signature> Payoffline Limited i have telephoned them and they confirmed this, also when i went to my newsagent for the paper as he has a Payoffline termainal i asked him and he got the same letter with an address he has to returned his terminal too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m8internet Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 There is nothing on the PayOffline website about end of service Does the letter address match that of : http://www.payoffline.com/Public/ContactUs.aspx I'm involved in a small local chain of shops With the expansion of PayPoint I am not surprised by that Sounds to me like PayOffline is merging and/or pulling out Post Office Ironically, we use PayZone and the terminal is free as we already have a Camelot terminal in each store I assume you can advise a customer to visit a local shop and make payment there, the transaction then appeared in your account? If so, take a look at PayZone However it's not cheap for small value / small volume of transactions 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 There is nothing on the PayOffline website about end of service Does the letter address match that of : http://www.payoffline.com/Public/ContactUs.aspx I'm involved in a small local chain of shops With the expansion of PayPoint I am not surprised by that Sounds to me like PayOffline is merging and/or pulling out Post Office Ironically, we use PayZone and the terminal is free as we already have a Camelot terminal in each store I assume you can advise a customer to visit a local shop and make payment there, the transaction then appeared in your account? If so, take a look at PayZone However it's not cheap for small value / small volume of transactions yes the address is the same and i contacted them to clarify the letter, yes i found no mention of this on their website. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m8internet Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I'm going to keep my eye on this I've now seen other retailers have received such notices As above, sounds like a consolidation to a single provider (and all the hassle and increases charges that come with that) I actually quite like the idea that a customer can simply visit a local shop to renew their hosting 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) I actually quite like the idea that a customer can simply visit a local shop to renew their hosting Yes i signed up for that reason, allthough the the 6 yrs ive had the payoffline account its only been used about a dozen times, so no great lose, just that its is an additional payment method clients can use. also as payoffline is part of the Santander group it does not surprise me. Edited January 9, 2012 by easyhosting 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m8internet Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Perhaps you would want to look into this : https://www.paypoint.net/partner-programme/hosting-isp/ Most of the shops and retailers I know use PayPoint I suspect this is what Post Office are changing over to 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
openmind Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 They emailed all merchants on the 23rd December: Dear Merchant, RE : CONTRACT FOR THE PROVISION OF PAYOFFLINE SERVICES For various commercial reasons we have reached a decision that we will unfortunately be unable to continue to provide the PayOffline services after the 31st March 2012. In the circumstances we hereby provide you with 90 days notice for termination of the services under the contract in accordance with our standard terms and conditions. You will also notice they are not taking any new signups: http://www.payoffline.com/Merchants/Registration.aspx 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 They emailed all merchants on the 23rd December: You will also notice they are not taking any new signups: http://www.payoffline.com/Merchants/Registration.aspx yup looks like another victim of the current economic climate. it is strange that they are acceping new merchant signups but you can still join their affiliate program 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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