Best Payment Gateway for International Transactions

[Petep]

Hi,

We have customers from all over the world, primarily North America and
Western Europe, but we attract customers from Asia, S. America and
Eastern Europe.

Could anyone recommend the most comprehensive yet stable payment
gateway for international transactions?

Thanks,
Pete

[Cody Fauser]

As long as your customers have a payment method that you can accept,
like Visa or MasterCard, I don't think you'll have problems running
international transactions with any payment gateway. Shopify uses
Authorize.net and we haven't had any problems billing our many
international customers so far.

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[dianos]

There is various issues with different western payment gateways, and
standard payment methods Visa Electron which is very popular in
eastern Europe seems to be accepted by some and not by others, paypal
for instance has issues with many Bulgarian Visa Electrons at the
moment.
So the answer is not as simple. if anyone has some more detailed
information of what gateways have least amount of issues for *exotic*
countries, please do respond.

[Chris Earle (CBL)]

Yes, this is a challenging dilemma ....
I too have adequate success with Auth.net internationally, but it's
not as clean cut as it would be if I could charge people in their
native currencies (Euro, Pound etc).

There doesn't seem to be an international provider that a gateway has
been written for Active Merchant that covers a good majority of
countries. Some cover certain regions pretty well, but....

Alternatively, a solution may be to pull live currency exchange data
from a credible source and charge the amount on the backend that
matches what you're selling for...... I may attempt this shortly for a
project...

[Ed W]

Chris Earle (CBL) wrote:
> Yes, this is a challenging dilemma ....
> I too have adequate success with Auth.net internationally, but it's
> not as clean cut as it would be if I could charge people in their
> native currencies (Euro, Pound etc).
>

I'm not quite sure I understand the question?

I use Protx in the UK and regularly take credit cards from worldwide
customers from Australia to Russia to the US. All are accepted fine. I
can even nominally bill in any currency I like that is supported by my
merchant facility, but currently we only bill in GBP and allow the bank
to convert it to the home currency

However, Protx won't support
any merchant banks except UK ones - is this what you mean?