California Wine Hikes now accepts DiscoverCard

Recently Discover Networks contacted me to let me know that my merchant account could now accept the Discover/Novus Card. That was mighty nice of them! Up until now, the californiawinehikes.com shopping cart accepted only MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal.

Now visitors to the California Wine Hikes website have another option.

To allow my customers to use their Discover cards to book a California Wine Hikes tour, all I had to do was launch my shopping cart admin account, click the Discover checkbox, then add the DiscoverCard icon to the book now feature on my tour pages. Easy peasy!

I also intend to accept the American Express card on the site someday, though at present, I find it a relatively expensive proposition. Hey, I spend a fair share on my business using my American Express card, so do you think they’ll waive the fees and just let me turn it on like Discover Networks did?

Well, one can dream.

I’m dreaming of a day in which we won’t need plastic credit cards to get what we want. Instead we’ll only have to touch the nanochip implants embedded in our temples to wirelessly synchronize with the online shopping carts containing the stuff we want to buy, blink twice, and…

…NO!! Bad dream!! No biscuit!!!

And you thought I was going to pun mercilessly about “Discover”-ing the winehiking experience, didn’t you? Clearly, it’s time for me to go hit the trail.

~winehiker

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