Internet Media Solutions Review Summary
Internet Media Solutions offers some of the best customer service, although they charge rather high start-up costs and discount rates. Overall, they offer good online-based credit card processing services.
Overall score: 3 / 5.
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Internet Media Solutions Features
Internet Media Solutions offers a number of features for online businesses, including customer and product database management, automated recurring billing and an e-commerce merchant account. They also offer a secure SSL order form that encrypts all credit card transactions.
- E-commerce merchant account to collect funds and deposit them into your bank account.
- SSL secure order form for customers to enter data, which is secured through the SSL encryption method for increased security.
- Virtual terminal with a ready-made order form.
- Weblink, or automated website ordering, to create an order button on your website.
- Free shopping cart.
- Free web hosting for one year, after which the cost is $14.95 per month.
- Automatic recurring billing to accept orders, keep track of customers and automate recurring billing with no manual input.
- Password member management to provide paid, password-protected access to members-only sections of your website. This service may be intergrated with recurring billing.
- Email marketing, which puts every customer’s email into a database to send email alerts.
- Customer database management to log customers’ information to access at any time.
- Product database to designate products or services as one-time orders or monthly rebilling charges.
Internet Media Solutions Review
99% approval rating of applicants makes it easy to set up an account. There is no fee for applying.
Cost Per Month
Internet Media Solutions has some of the highest monthly costs in the industry, in part due to the discount rate of 2.36% and the high $0.30 transaction fee. There is also a $10 statement fee, $15 payment gateway fee, $25 monthly minimum, $25 chargeback fee and a $1 voice authorization fee.
The start-up cost of $197 is among the highest among competitors.
It takes 2-3 days on average to set up a merchant account and then 2 days to receive funds.
Internet Media Solutions does offer excellent customer service that’s helpful and responds quickly.
Internet payment solutions include a merchant account, virtual terminal and a payment gateway through ChargeNet or Authorize.net.
Point Of Sale
There is only 1 P.O.S. terminal available for retail businesses, whereas most competitors have at least a few models to choose from.
Despite their great customer service, there is simply no way to justify the higher-than-average set-up and monthly costs associated with their services. Internet Media Solutions can’t be recommended.