# Can I use my own credit card processing company?

Credit Card Processing

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- Posted at: over 8 years ago
- Net upvotes: 1


## Comments
### Comment 1

While you can use a credit card payment processor other than PayPal or Vantiv, you will lose many important features that come with the integrated solution:

1. Accept Ticket Sales and Donations Online: Using the integrated credit card processing you automatically have a website via Silent Auction Pro through which you can sell tickets online and accept online cash donations. If you have your own website you can provide a simple link to your Silent Auction Pro page for accepting tickets and cash donations. Obviously you can do this with external merchant accounts and other ticketing systems but you do not get items 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 below.

2. Automatically Add Attendees via Online Ticket Purchases: When selling tickets online through Silent Auction Pro, attendee information is automatically entered into your Contacts database through a simple reconciliation process. This eliminates duplicate data entry required when selling tickets online using an external process.

3. Support for Silent Auction Pro Online Bidding: Using the integrated credit card processing is a requirement to use Silent Auction Pro's Online Bidding component. This protects you by ensuring you get paid for items that are won online.

4. Ability to Pre-Authorize Attendee Credit Cards and offer Express Check-Out: This is a win-win for both you and your attendees. By pre-authorizing attendee credit cards you can quickly and efficiently process payments at the end of your event and have paid invoice receipts waiting for your Express Check-Out attendees. This way they don't have to wait in the check-out line. The advantage for your organization is if people leave the event without paying for the items on which they bid and won, you can choose to bill their credit card and let them know you have their items ready for them to pick up. This can significantly simplify the after auction workload. You will not have this using an external account.

5. Simple - One Step Check-Out: The integrated credit card processing in Silent Auction Pro offers you a simple one step check-out process where you can accept the credit card payment via the computer and immediately print out the attendee's paid invoice. Accepting credit cards outside of Silent Auction Pro requires multiple steps: Printing the attendee's invoice, Running the Credit Card, then Processing the Payment in Silent Auction Pro to mark the invoices as paid.

6. Swipe Credit Card Information Quickly and Securely via your Computers: Using the optional USB Credit Card Readers you can quickly and securely swipe credit card information directly into the computer for payment processing. This speeds up the check-out process and eliminates the risk of exposing your attendee credit card information by using a manual paper process. All card information is encrypted and sent via a secure connection.

If you are interested in using the features described above, the first step is to establish a Merchant Account with PayPal or Vantiv Integrated Payments.

##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: over 8 years ago
- Author title: Helping Nonprofits Raise Funds Through Silent, Live Auctions and More.




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