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Title: Moving customers to GoCardless...
Post by: supernova77 on April 25, 2014, 10:17:40 am
Hi All,

I've been using GoCardless for a while... I have a number of customers already setup on it and it works brilliantly.

From my experience though it seems like a lot of customers are put off signing up as they think its a monthly direct debit - I don't think they realise that payment is only taken after a window clean... I think this is an issue with some of my customers as I clean on a 7 weekly frequency.

With this is mind I have tweaked my GoCardless website page from:

www.iconicwindowcleaning.co.uk/directdebit

to this:

www.iconicwindowcleaning.co.uk/autopay

What do you think? It's only a subtle change but hopefully it will help to get more customers signed up.

Andy  ;)
Title: Re: Moving customers to GoCardless...
Post by: Marc Stock on April 25, 2014, 10:21:53 am
I'd not worry too much about it. I have a dd mandate with their email address to be filled out. If they want to pay via dd they fill it out and I get them signed up.

I have 12 on dd. I get one or two a month go onto it. Its great. Problem payers who get constant reminders to settle their bill tend to see it and think that's a good idea I'll do that.
Title: Re: Moving customers to GoCardless...
Post by: Smudger on April 25, 2014, 11:02:47 am
it nice Andy, just a small point, do you actually wait 5 days before YOU claim? We always claim ours after each clean and I beleive it actually debits the customers the day or two after you claim (not 5 days later) Sorry if you knew this already xx (do you have many on GC now? - As a small point I do not know if you use window cleaing software, but we use cleaner planner - and the go cardless integration feature saves us LOTS of time - just incase you might be interested)
mrs smudger
Title: Re: Moving customers to GoCardless...
Post by: Stephen.C on April 25, 2014, 05:51:54 pm
Can someone explain how it works and setup cost etc. as I can't find it anywhere on the net.
Most of my customers on domestic pay on line, keeping track is becoming difficult.
Title: Re: Moving customers to GoCardless...
Post by: dave f on April 26, 2014, 08:03:31 am
just think of all the xmas tips you will loose ;D
Title: Re: Moving customers to GoCardless...
Post by: Jonny 87 on April 27, 2014, 09:00:22 am
just think of all the xmas tips you will loose ;D

Think of all the fuel money you save not driving round chasing up debt. :)
Title: Re: Moving customers to GoCardless...
Post by: HampshireWindowCleaning on April 27, 2014, 09:20:22 am
Can someone explain how it works and setup cost etc. as I can't find it anywhere on the net.
Most of my customers on domestic pay on line, keeping track is becoming difficult.
There's no setup costs Steve, and it's only 1% per transaction, a £20 payment costs 20p etc.
Title: Re: Moving customers to GoCardless...
Post by: Shane O Neill on April 27, 2014, 12:41:45 pm
Andy
Your explanation is excellent on your web eliminates any concerns .

How do you guys mention it to customers ? Do you say 'this is what we are doing now' or 'would you be interested in this payment option' ?
Title: Re: Moving customers to GoCardless...
Post by: Soupy on April 27, 2014, 01:07:32 pm
When asked "how do I pay you?"

I say: "the easiest way is ...."
Title: Re: Moving customers to GoCardless...
Post by: PoleKing on April 27, 2014, 04:13:44 pm
When asked "how do I pay you?"

I say: "the easiest way is ...."

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