List of countries where card processing is difficult

[emjay]

Hey everyone:-)

Here's a list of country codes according to ISO 3166-1 (Alpha-2) whose traffic you should consider sending directly to your alternative processor due to bad risk/negligible card penetration.

Hit me up if you would like a script to do this.

If there are any countries in the list that you feel should not be there, LMK - thanks!

af Afghanistan
al Albania
dz Algeria
as American Samoa
ad Andorra
ao Angola
ai Anguilla
aq Antarctica
ag Antigua and Barbuda
ar Argentina
am Armenia
aw Aruba
xac Ascension Island
az Azerbaijan
bs Bahamas
bh Bahrain
bd Bangladesh
bb Barbados
by Belarus
bz Belize
bj Benin
bm Bermuda
bt Bhutan
bo Bolivia
ba Bosnia and Herzegowina
bw Botswana
bv Bouvet Island
br Brasil
bn Brunei Darussalam
bg Bulgaria
bf Burkina Faso
bi Burundi
kh Cambodia
cm Cameroon
cv Cape Verde
ky Cayman Islands
cf Central African Republic
td Chad
cl Chile
cn China
cx Christmas Island
co Colombia
km Comoros
cg Congo
ck Cook Islands
cr Costa Rica
hr Croatia
cu Cuba
xcr Curacao
cy Cyprus
cz Czech Republic
xdg Diego Garcia
dj Djibouti
dm Dominica
do Dominican Republic
tl East Timor
ec Ecuador
eg Egypt
sv El Salvador
gq Equatorial Guinea
er Eritrea
ee Estonia
et Ethiopia
fk Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
fo Faroe Islands
fj Fiji
gf French Guiana
pf French Polynesia
ga Gabon
gm Gambia
ge Georgia
gh Ghana
gi Gibraltar
gr Greece
gl Greenland
gd Grenada
gp Guadeloupe
gu Guam
xgb Guantoanamo Bay
gt Guatemala
gn Guinea
gw Guinea-Bissau
gy Guyana
ht Haiti
hn Honduras
hu Hungary
is Iceland
in India
id Indonesia
ir Iran (Islamic Republic Of)
iq Iraq
ci Ivory Coast
jm Jamaica
jo Jordan
kz Kazakhstan
ke Kenya
ki Kiribati
kp Korea North
kw Kuwait
kg Kyrgyzstan
la Laos
lv Latvia
lb Lebanon
ls Lesotho
lr Liberia
ly Libya
lt Lithuania
mo Macau
mk Macedonia
mg Madagascar
mw Malawi
my Malaysia
mv Maldives
ml Mali
mt Malta
mp Marianas Islands
mh Marshall Islands
mq Martinique
mr Mauritania
mu Mauritius
yt Mayotte
mx Mexico
fm Micronesia, Federated States
md Moldova, Republic Of
mc Monaco
mn Mongolia
ms Montserrat
ma Morocco
mz Mozambique
mm Myanmar
na Namibia
nr Nauru
np Nepal
an Netherlands Antilles
nc New Caledonia
ni Nicaragua
ne Niger
ng Nigeria
nu Niue
nf Norfolk Island
om Oman
pk Pakistan
pw Palau
ps Palestine
pa Panama
pg Papua New Guinea
py Paraguay
pe Peru
ph Philippines
pn Pitcairn
pl Poland
pt Portugal
pr Puerto Rico
qa Qatar
re Reunion
ro Romania
ru Russian Federation
rw Rwanda
sh Saint Helena
kn Saint Kitts and Nevis
lc Saint Lucia
pm Saint Pierre and Miquelon
vc Saint Vincent, and The Grenadines
ws Samoa
sm San Marino
st Sao Tome And Principe
sa Saudi Arabia
sn Senegal
cs Serbia (and Montenegro)
sc Seychelles
sl Sierra Leone
sk Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
si Slovenia
sb Solomon Islands
so Somalia
lk Sri Lanka
sd Sudan
sr Suriname
sj Svalbard /JanMayen Island
sz Swaziland
sy Syrian Arab Republic
tw Taiwan
tj Tajikistan
tz Tanzania, United Republic
th Thailand
tg Togo
tk Tokelau
to Tonga
tt Trinidad and Tobago
tn Tunisia
tr Turkey
tm Turkmenistan
tc Turks and Caicos Islands
tv Tuvalu
ug Uganda
ua Ukraine
um United States Minor Is.
uy Uruguay
uz Uzbekistan
vu Vanuatu
va Vatican City
ve Venezuela
vn Viet Nam
vg Virgin Islands (British)
vi Virgin Islands (U.S.)
wf Wallis and Fortuna Isle.
ye Yemen
zm Zambia
xzz Zanzibar
zw Zimbabwe

[jakeuk]

Interesting list, I live in the UK and I will say card processing for adult related site is difficult here, many of the credit card merchants will not accept any site that features below the waist nudity.

[emjay]

Originally Posted by jakeuk

Interesting list, I live in the UK and I will say card processing for adult related site is difficult here, many of the credit card merchants will not accept any site that features below the waist nudity.

Did not know that. You live you learn.

In any event, you should feature pay-per-call billing, the UK being the most advanced and regulated market when it comes to premium rate.

But shop around - For example, In the case of the UK, an 8 minute pay-per-minute session from a surfer from there will yield:

Processor A : $7.04
Processor B : $7.12
Processor C : $8.00
Processor D : $10.20

Remember, the surfer pays £1.50/Min., irrespective of the processor you choose - go figure - and enjoy that sunshine lol

[Allfetish]

Originally Posted by emjay

Remember, the surfer pays £1.50/Min., irrespective of the processor you choose - go figure - and enjoy that sunshine lol

I don't mean to be rude but nearly $2.50 USD a minute is just way too much. Personally for alternative phone billing I'd rather keep the subscription model and do $30 USD (equiv. in their currency) a month. Do you offer that? If not, you should.

Thanks for the list though...

[emjay]

Originally Posted by Allfetish

I don't mean to be rude but nearly $2.50 USD a minute is just way too much. Personally for alternative phone billing I'd rather keep the subscription model and do $30 USD (equiv. in their currency) a month. Do you offer that? If not, you should.

Thanks for the list though...

Actually, we do not dictate the end-user costs - rather, the telcos with whom we have interconnect agreements do - which is why the payouts vary from country to country.

Such "premium rate" per minute billing works great in most developed markets, except USA/Canada.

There, you would be better off selling a monthly subscription, but there are chargebacks, and 900 does not even work with cell phones...