Making a new website...Help Needed URGENTLY

[Harshu]

Hi,
Well i m designing a new website. Now my problem is that the customer for whom i m designing the website is opening a consultation kind of thing on the website only. He wants the consultation to be paid i mean he want take money for the consultation.
Now the problem is that about the payement method. I wanna say that the possible payment methods r Cheque, DD and Credit Card. Most relevant is Credit Card but how to authenticate the Credit Card. Is There any software or website which will do the authenticate the Credit Card of what so ever. Please tell me the whole procedure.
I m creating a website on Flash 5. Other things have no problem but customer wants a feedback kinda of forum in which the person surfing on the website can send his comments and other
feedback to my customer on his e-mail. Now how will i create the Page for this kind of thing. I mean the page will be like a form. With all details asking for Name,e-mail etc. In the end there will be a Submit button. Now i want to know which action should i use that all the details of the form can be send to the customer's e-mail.
My next problem is that when i export the flash movie a an HTML the flash movie place it self on the whole page but the edges remains (about 1-2mm on all the sides) blank. For removing it i
have to make the bg colour of the HTML page same as of the movie. But it really don't help all the time. Any way the these spaces can be removed or any way that the whole flash movie can be displayed on the webpage without any gaps.
The website name have been registered but with a .net extention. Is there any difference between .net and .com. I mean money transation r possible on it or not. Please Help.

[o0O0oecho0O0o]

PayPal should do credit cards for you, very secure and reputable

[rextex]

.net and .com are fine.Both are for private or business entities.
Paypal is good.

[Shinta]

you can use paypal, yahoo pay direct, and several other things

you can also always just do a money transfer to your account

[JustinL]

We've used Miva Merchant for all our sites in Ireland and found it very useful

[Shinta]

ive never heard of that merchant before.. howlong have they been around? whats the website and fees like?

[Harshu]

Well as u all have said i had gone to yahoo pay direct as well as Paypal. But the thing i want is similar that we find on a paid site. I mean who ever want to consult will enter his name, credit card no, and then the amount and click on submit. Now there should be some database or a website which will authenticate the Credit card no. and then do the further transations.
R these sites the same if yes please explain me the procedure.

[Shinta]

when someone enters their card numbers etc it is automatically checked

paypals software is very sophisticated even if you enter a fake city while you sign up.. it wont let you proceed