Options or ideas for mailing in payments?

[epauldc29]

Most of our clients are already accustomed to mailing in checks for payment. Now that we are starting to us WHMCS we would still like to offer that as an option. My questions is 2 fold:

 

1. How do you set up that kind of payment in the system (that gives the options of mailing in or paying by credit card?)

2. We would like to extend a discount if they do mail in a check - has anyone done anything like that before?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

EP

[openmind]

Take a look at the payment gateways, there is an option in there for mailing in payments. You could only really setup a discount though by creating a client group that only has cheque payments setup.

 

On a side note we haven't accepted cheques since 2004!

[Troy]

On a side note we haven't accepted cheques since 2004!

 

If you took check payment in 2004, did you switch to some sort of electronic bank transfer for those folks, or make them switch to a different method of payment? I only ask because I have been really wishing for a good ACH solution with recurring capabilities so we could dispense with paper check processing. We refuse to deal with paypal anymore, and Dwolla appears to be the only other bank payment solution available to WHMCS at the moment. It doesn't do recurring, unfortunately, and the client has to visit a third party site, which I'm not really crazy about. I'd love for clients to simply enter bank information like they do card info and have payment done automatically on a recurring basis.

[And then there was one les]

Do you have anything like we do here in the uk for standing orders troy? if you do, you can take the mail in module and duplicate it to make a new module for instructing clients how to set up the standing order payment, They would be in full control of it which gives them a sense of security and you get paid automatically from their bank on the shedule they set up, just instruct them to set it up inline with their service terms and your good to go.

 

The only snag with it is you have to manually check your bank for payments, but if you accept cheques then you are doing that anyway. The other benefit is the costs are reduced as its an automated payment and not a manual cheque payment.