i know how western works, i used to send money to my nephew in China. i know the fees, but as i mentioned in my previous comment, an alternative payment would be great.

I have been always sent money by my uncle in US via MoneyGram and Western. It is very comfortable, we don’t have to have any account in the bank and fast process compare to wired transfer. I don’t know how much my uncle spent for the bank charge, but around $80 for wired transfer, so you must make sure that the bank charge is covered by your customer and receive in US dollar. If you don’t state them clearly, you will upset your profit.

You want to have an American Express card or to accept money by American Express card? For what I have mentioned above is the process when your customer pay you by Card.

yeah i might start using paypal for the basic one. let’s see how we can do it for next few months.

thank for the information about American Express, i will love to have one.

American Express is a kind of credit card like Visa and Master but the bank service charge of Am. Exp. is higher than Master and Visa. For card processing, you have to open a current account to have a bank machine to process the pin card key in and there are two banks that serve this kind of service (Am. Exp.), CCB and Mekong bank.

I think that you should try to have a paypal account to get the money rather than to accept the cheque as it takes around 6 weeks to complete the cheque clearing.

Anyway, you need to be careful with the bank charge and currency base.

Good Luck,

Piseth if u know how it works please drop me a line, thanks