Credit Card Payments To A Bank Account

[bednobs]

Hi I have a bill I'd like to pay by credit card.
The problem is it's an invoice for a service and the person has only provided me their bank accounts details to pay into. He assures me he can take credit cards but he just doesn't have a machine to do that. Is it possible to pay this bill by credit card?

[New Judge]

The only way to pay by credit card is for the trader to provide the facilities for you to do so (i.e. by means of a card machine, or by providing you with a method to give them your card details).

If you pay by bank transfer and you have the recipient's sort code and account number you simply do a transfer using them. But you can't do that with a credit card - the trader hs to provide you with the facilities to make the payment.

 

 

[youngmafbog]

AS ssaid you cant pay into a Bank account with a credit card.

If the vendor can take vredit cards then they must subscribe to something like Worldpay (or their Bank).  Thats what you need.

[bednobs]

thank you

[Buenchico]

If the payee doesn't have a 'merchant account', which is the traditional way to accept credit card payments, he can use a PSP (= 'payment service provider') to facilitate the payment.  The most popular one, by far, is PayPal.  All that's needed is for the payee to create an invoice for his services:
https://www.paypal.com/uk/cshelp/article/how-do-i-create-and-send-an-invoice-help319