Square is just a payment processing service. So I assume Ching is similar. So I doubt this has anything to do with reserving moorings but rather the ability to pay for them via credit card. At least that's how I'm interpreting this. And maybe that's all that's really needed for FCFS moorings though this seems to imply that someone would still need to come around to the boats and process your credit card. I had in mind something with a little bit more meat on it, i.e., a web site I could go to - perhaps save my credentials and credit card into - and I could initiate the payment myself by simply stating my boatname and which mooring I was currently attached to. Thus the mooring owner could just skip me when he/she is out collecting or if he/she came by I could show them the e-mailed receipt I had. It could be very simple to put in place. In fact these two things - ability to self initiate the payment through a web site and the ability to pay the person collecting via a credit card via Ching could certainly co-exist. If the mooring ball owners wanted this to work for FCFS mooring balls it's not a technology issue but rather their decision to support it or not. Frankly it's probably a weekend's worth of work to set it up and get it hosted. And to start with you could probably just set it up through something like Sign up Genius - that would take maybe two hours to set up and cost nothing whatsoever other than the credit card transaction fees which presumably something like Ching will be charging as well so really no diff. So the cost of the FCFS mooring through this mechanism should be whatever the mooring owner is trying to charge, i.e., not different than what you would pay the person collecting. I bet I could get a workable version of the sign up genius solution set up for any owner that wanted to take a look Any takers? The funny thing is that surely TCWNWSNS could set the FCFS mooring fee payment system up in no time whatsoever given where they are right now.

I found out that TCWNWSNS is located in my town. Maybe I should go knock on their door and find out if the people working on this really have horns and tails as some on this board seem to be implying.