Just wondering how prevalent it was for Web hosts to accept personal cheques from clients... seeing as how I asking about it in another thread.

Thanks!
Neil

No, too much of a hassle. Even with a business account it takes over 30 days for a cheque to clear from another country for me.

No. Again, too much hassle.

Would complicate non-payments and refunds.

We accept checks if the payment is for 3 months of hosting and the customer is from the US. Their account is not activated until the check clears.

I gladly accept checks. I even activate the account when a customer says they're sending one.

So I get burned once in a while, the goodwill it creates with the ones who don't burn me are well worth the trouble.

Been burned once. So he got a months free hosting. I have a signup link that gives people their first month free that I posted a while back. It's all good :D

I find with the ease of using a virtual terminal to process credit cards, it seems very 'olde-worlde' to be taking cheques :)

And then of course there's the problem of bouncing cheques etc, For now I'm happy just taking credit cards.

But I'm thinking about accepting cheques for pre-payment... That's not a bad idea.