Some questions about 3rd party billing

[accessdenied]

Hi, everyone! I can hardly believe it's Friday! Woosh!
:luke:

I am shopping around for 2 primary services, and would like some feedback on possible providers. Essentially, what I'm wanting to do is provide escorting, and have noted that there aren't much businesses in my area; there are none listed in the phone books (I checked!).

Service 1:
What I am looking to do is have a caller listen to a brief messasge, essentially directing them to a web site for more information, before directing them to a menu where they can select from a list of service providers. They will then listen to brief messages of the providers regarding the services they offer, ending with an ID# of the provider. After making their choice, I would like the caller to be directed to our third party billing company, to book the services of the provider. I think this will go well (the phone service) using kall8.com...

Service 2:
The third party billing. I checked with CCBill: "We do have
telephone billing where the customer can be billed for a subscription
on their phone bill, but these orders are placed online - not on an
actual telephone call." What I would need is for after a caller selects their provider, to then be able to place their order by phone and by website. Then, they would contact them (send a text/email/call to their cell?), to notify them of a client, providing the provider with the name and contact info of the client.

Any suggestions?

[gaybucks_chip]

From your description, it sounds like it's going to fall under the category that Visa calls "audiotext" which is basically phone sex lines.

Since I don't think either Epoch or CCBill (or any of the off-brand billers) will offer what you are after, you'll probably have to go with a direct merchant account... but the catch is, generally, you have to have a pretty high volume, and I'm not even sure there are any US-based banks that are still accepting new customers for audiotext.

I'd say your best bet is to find a really good merchant account broker to help you. Mitch at Netbilling has some good connections, and Victoria Kozub at ECS Commerce also seems to have a really good handle on what banks are taking high-risk and adult business.