Is this for online/e-commerce or retail point-of-sale?  Also what country is the merchant in and where are the customers from?


For online/e-commerce, you might consider OKPay.  [Edit: Oops, they no longer accept credit card.]

 - https://www.okpay.com/en/services/accept-payments/index.html


Funds from OK Pay can be deposited with Mt. Gox, BTC-e, Bitcoins Direct and numerous others.


If you accept Amazon Payments, those funds can be sent to another Amazon Payments user who would trade for bitcoins, for instance.


Also, be careful using the term "real money".   Bitcoin is a lot more "real" than that fiat stuff that Ben and company create out of thin air.

As I understand, they sell services with low self-cost. Deposited money cannot be spent or withdrawn quickly. Still, one could deposit enough money, run a large advertizement company for like a month, then initiate a reversal. But, I guess, it happens rather rarely. So, losses should be sustainable.

I just edited that post as I just looked again and see that they don't process credit card payments.

One of the challenges to a merchant processor considering offering what you are asking is that they no longer have that link to the banking system.  So currently, if the are lots of chargebacks (either fraudulent or legitimate) they always can follow the money.  With Bitcoin, the buck stops right there (or, at least the trail does.)  So they'ld likely want to keep a reserve, or maybe require some type of bond to protect against fraud.

If the reason you are looking for this (direct to bitoins) method is to shorten the amount of time between the funds can be spent by you, there is one solution to consider, described here:


So for that, you simply have your merchant processor send the proceeds to your bank account at Veridian (most merchant processors in the U.S. do this with an ACH push), and then from the moment those funds are credited in your bank account at Veridian it could be just a matter of minutes (e.g., within an hour) before those funds would sitting at your exchange in the form of bitcoins waiting for withdrawal.


If instead you are looking for a way to protect against the scenario where a person pays in USDs, but by the time you receive the USD funds the BTC exchange rate has moved against you, that is addressed here:



If you want this merchant processor to do the conversion to bitcoins so that you don't use a bank account at all, that's probably going to be a long way off yet.  We already know that VISA and Mastercard are aware of Bitcoin and their intentions are fairly clear.   Remember the "original credit transaction" offerent through AurumXChange back in May?   That lasted about 48 hours before the credit card companies put the kibosh on that.
 - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/05/07/bitcoin-funded-debit-cards/



If that does come, it will likely be with an offshore merchant account provider that somehow figures out the right combination to allow it.  

Well maybe explain that to your users and let them use paypal if they want to knowing you will wait the 180 days to be sure they cannot charge back before running their campaign, and recommend if they prefer to start the campaign sooner they look into obtaining some bitcoins?

-MarkM-

Does OKPay accept now credit cards? I haven't found info on its site.