Final Hurdle
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:44 pm
Hello there everyone, some of you may have seen me posting on this forum before. I have learnt a lot from here and you have been very helpful to me.
Done so far:, I have designed my website myself and it is looking good, I have booked some great models from February onwards and I have written scripts etc for the scenes and I am very happy with all that, I have learnt how to edit pitures and video etc for website use,also learnt how to film scenes too(to the best of my ability) the hosting is all sorted out and I will have a limited company for the website in the next week.
My biggest problem which could ruin everything is getting a business account for my website and a merchant number for the following reasons.
1.) Banks do not give business accounts to website owners as a first business. As I am only 23 its my first very own business.
2.) To get a merchant number Banks have to authorise the use by whats on the website as they do not want to have there name associated with anything hardcore. It seems as soon as the word adult comes up they are straight away looking to say no.
I could apparently use ccbill, paycom etc to authorise payments without a business bank account but these companies do not take payments for anything other than subscriptions, I have also set up a fully working shop section too where people can buy from.
Can anyone shed some light on the situation and let me know how they got around this as there must be website owners that faced the same dillema when starting up.
If anyone is wondering how I get time to do all this with my other job, the answer is, look at the time of the post, Mild case of insomnia. lol
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards James Farey
Done so far:, I have designed my website myself and it is looking good, I have booked some great models from February onwards and I have written scripts etc for the scenes and I am very happy with all that, I have learnt how to edit pitures and video etc for website use,also learnt how to film scenes too(to the best of my ability) the hosting is all sorted out and I will have a limited company for the website in the next week.
My biggest problem which could ruin everything is getting a business account for my website and a merchant number for the following reasons.
1.) Banks do not give business accounts to website owners as a first business. As I am only 23 its my first very own business.
2.) To get a merchant number Banks have to authorise the use by whats on the website as they do not want to have there name associated with anything hardcore. It seems as soon as the word adult comes up they are straight away looking to say no.
I could apparently use ccbill, paycom etc to authorise payments without a business bank account but these companies do not take payments for anything other than subscriptions, I have also set up a fully working shop section too where people can buy from.
Can anyone shed some light on the situation and let me know how they got around this as there must be website owners that faced the same dillema when starting up.
If anyone is wondering how I get time to do all this with my other job, the answer is, look at the time of the post, Mild case of insomnia. lol
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards James Farey