Re: credit card payments for consultations

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Cheques are not being phased out - the powers that be did a u-turn on that one.When new patients book in I always say I accept cash or cheque only. Never had a problem. Helen To: ukherbal group

<ukherbal-list > Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 21:13 Subject: credit card payments for consultations

Thanks Zoe for your input. Some of my regular patients either pay by bank transfer for consultations and/or medicines. I was thinking of initial consultations. I guess I'm wondering if they will pay me if I send them off with their prescription and my bank details in order to transfer the fee once they get home. I suppose it's no different than them scooting off to a cash point and coming back to pay me post consultation. Anne

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You've also got the opposite approach where some companies Air? Force customers to use a particular payment method whether they like it or not! Personally I've had MORE requests to complete transactions by card. I've also had a sharp increase in texting as communication when clients are offered it. The advantage of card is that payment management is easier on both sides. You get paid and client has the convenience of delaying their payment for over a month. It's pros and cons.Lorraine Lorraine Hodgkinson MRCHMHERBS AND HELPERS6, Butts Fold, Cockermouth,Cumbria, CA13 9HY. UK.Tel: +44 (0) 1900 826392Mobile: 07761 489838 (O2)www.herbalmedicineuk.comOn 19 Jan 2012, at 17:12, anne chiotis wrote:

wrote:-One of the clinics I work at gave a questionnaire to patients asking whether they wanted to pay a small extra fee to cover the added expence and guess what requests to use card evaporated! Yes, that doesn't surprise me in the slightest . It may not be good business if you are a retailer not to accept card payments because people like the convenience when they shop. However we are in a different position. I like the idea of letting potential patients know when they book that they have to pay by card or cq. I hadn't thought of doing that. Anne

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Ummm it is interesting reading these posts some 12000 miles away. But on moving

to NZ, it is virtually impossible to conduct any business without accepting card

payments, as almost all Kiwis never have cash. Also to own a cheque book or

cash a cheque costs money, & are almost extinct here, with many places refusing

them, so watch this space, as NZ, due to its size is a 'test' country on many

levels... their banking being way ahead, & feel it is only a matter of time

before it sweeps the globe.

In the meantime however, make the most of it. I have attempted to educate some

of my longstanding patients, but really it is a sensitive matter, particularly

here, as the clinic does not want to detract buisness, although some months, my

bank fees are huge & I do question their value, but I have built this into me

fees & herbs

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> Cheques are not being phased out - the powers that be did a u-turn on that

one.

> When new patients book in I always say I accept cash or cheque only. Never had

a problem.

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> Helen

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> To: ukherbal group <ukherbal-list >

> Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 21:13

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> Thanks Zoe for your input. Some of my regular patients either pay by bank

transfer for consultations and/or medicines.

> I was thinking of initial consultations. I guess I'm wondering if they will

pay me if I send them off with their prescription and my bank details in order

to transfer the fee once they get home. I suppose it's no different than them

scooting off to a cash point and coming back to pay me post consultation.

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> Anne

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I have to disagree, ....... I warn my patients that it is only cash or cheques and no problems at all.

Has been like that for the last 10 years since I arrived in New Zealand.

Joe.

  Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD.

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-- credit card payments for consultations> > > >  > > Thanks Zoe for your input. Some of my regular patients either pay by bank transfer for consultations and/or medicines. > I was thinking of initial consultations. I guess I'm wondering if they will pay me if I send them off with their prescription and my bank details in order to transfer the fee once they get home. I suppose it's no different than them scooting off to a cash point and coming back to pay me post consultation. > > Anne>

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Good one Joe, you are either fortunate where you live, or very pursuasive,

although I wouldn't argue with you.. aka 'rottweiler', even if you're gentle

most of the time :-) Both my clinics have a similar policy, that my peers seem

to agree on, as we have had many a discussion on the topic.

You would have to agree however, about many establishments not accepting cheques

any longer [at least in main centres], fees for cheque books & to cash them,

which are a deterant for many, when plastic seems the norm? However, I would

not be surprised if we disagree ;-)

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> > From: anne chiotis <annechiotis@>

> > To: ukherbal group <ukherbal-list >

> > Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 21:13

> > Subject: credit card payments for consultations

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Nothing like that, it is just a policy, aka, my way or the highway.......

Rather be paid by a cheque + fees than not be paid, and the cost for credit cards are way higher than the cheques fees.

Going to gnaw on my bone now......

Joe.

  Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD.

"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind"

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Funny :-D & if only we had your tenacity, but with eftpos machine at reception,

it is not easy to decline & compared to UK, I do feel that Kiwis are 'lazy' when

it comes to cash/cheque, even if, as you say, fees are greater for card, but

clients aint paying - well at least not directly :-) Maybe you should come

north to the smoke & teach us a thing or two?

karen :-)

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> > > From: anne chiotis <annechiotis@>

> > > To: ukherbal group <ukherbal-list >

> > > Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 21:13

> > > Subject: credit card payments for consultations

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You can't afford my teaching fees..............hehehehe

Joe

  Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD.

"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind"

Visit my new website www.naturamedica.webs.com

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