Authorize.net picks FreshBooks
We’re pleased to announce the U.S. leader in online payment processing, Authorize.Net, has selected FreshBooks to be included in their Merchant Toolbox, a set of twelve best-in-class tools recommended by Authorize.Net to help online merchants run their businesses more effectively.
With this announcement, Authorize.Net’s parent company, CyberSource, becomes the second major public company to partner with FreshBooks. The first was Amazon, who chose FreshBooks in August 2007 to be one of the first four services to integrate with their brand new Flexible Payments Service.
We’re very proud of this latest recognition from our friends at Authorize.Net! They’ve been an online payments industry leader for years, and we’re delighted to be given their seal of approval. It’s a very big deal to recommend products or services to a friend, colleague or customer — it means putting your own reputation on the line. The fact Authorize.Net is willing to recommend us to their over 200,000 merchants, and has even dedicated a page to us, really gives us that warm, fuzzy feeling inside.
Our close mutual relationship also benefits anyone wishing to use FreshBooks and Authorize.Net together. If you sign up for Authorize.Net through us, you’ll benefit from reduced signup and monthly fees, and a lower percentage fee on credit card transactions; and once you’re an Authorize.Net customer, you’re entitled to a discount on FreshBooks, too — $12 off your first month, to be exact! You’ll save money all around, and enjoy all the benefits of using both services together.
So be sure to check out our excellent discount on Authorize.Net, and get signed up with both services today!
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8:23 pm
congratulations! that is fabulous recognition.
enjoy the warm and fuzzy feeling.
r.
6:22 am
That’s great for you guys – but is there any update on the possibility of integrating Realex Payments for us Irish and UK FreshBooks fans?
11:31 am
Sarah, we definitely recognize our international gateway support is weak. We’re going to remedy that, we just need to do it in a way that makes good business sense for us.
And to (pompously) quote myself from this very post, “it’s a very big deal to recommend products or services to a friend, colleague or customer — it means putting your own reputation on the line.” We simply haven’t established the right kind of relationship there to move forward with something. We are at work on it, though.
For now, to my knowledge you should be able to use PayPal’s Website Payments Pro U.K. product in conjunction with FreshBooks. We’ve been unable to acquire a test account for ourselves to verify it works, but our users report it works just fine; you use our PayPal Payflow Pro integration, with “PayPalUK” as the “partner name.” Recurring billing and the whole nine yards works with it, too. It’s £20/month and the rates are a bit higher than a full gateway and merchant account, but it is a FreshBooks-compatible solution for now.
7:36 pm
Congratulations!
4:26 am
Hi Aaron, thanks for the reply and I know this is not really the best place for the discussion – it just prompted me to follow up. PayPal just doesn’t work within a business context – certainly not over here. But Realex are the defacto standard in Ireland and making great inroads into the UK. Look forward to when you guys get the relationship in place!
1:50 am
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