Payment Gateways

[jimbanks]

If you are flogging ebooks why not just do it via Clickbank?

It's cheap to get it on there and they take care of all the crap for you.

Just a thought.

[dogboy]

>paypal

... Everything you need to know about is in here:
https://www.x.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/3036-102-1-3412/PP_AdaptivePayments.pdf

[Rupert]

Anyone else finding the levels of Paypal Sales going up?  (as a % of sales)


I am planning a one click buy for UK sales on paypal, straight off the page soon. Just as it is soooo easy to buy that way.  The old check out is a bit of a pain if you are used to Paypal.

[eurotrash]

Anyone else finding the levels of Paypal Sales going up?  (as a % of sales)

I have a couple of mates one an electrician and one a plumber.  Both take PayPal payments for invoices from their websites.    They say it works well - they also don't have to have a  machine which is about £50 a month.

[Rupert]

Now that is a novel use.  I never considered they might use it.

[danr]

I've tried a few but always stuck with Secure Trading as you can create a fully customised payment page and send them the information over XML. Customer service is also excellent

[eurotrash]

Now that is a novel use.  I never considered they might use it.

Neither did I - It started out with the Plumber who wanted to give up the machine and he got so many people willing to do it, the electrician saw the plumbers website and tried it and the electrician gets 7-10 payments a week by paypal.   He reckons that most of his customers under 50 would have bought something from ebay so they will have a paypal account.

firstplumber.com and eh1electrical.co.uk

[ergophobe]

We invoice with Paypal for our rental as the normal course of affairs. There's even a plugin for Quickbooks that lets you send Paypal invoices straight from your accounting software with no need to actually even visit the Paypal site.

I looked all over for a provider that could provide a similar service at a similar price and it was damn hard to find. Intuit came back with a solution that required us to buy no fewer than three Intuit products.

Off topic...
I am a bit surprised about the plumber and electrician though because in my experience, small contractors in the building trades tend to avoid internet solutions.

Six years ago, we couldn't find anyone in the building trades in our area (rural California) that wanted to even use email - we had to buy a fax machine just to send and receive all that junk (estimates, invoices, etc). When we had some work done last year, everyone was emailing us PDFs and didn't want to deal with faxes if possible.

Of course, that means there's great opportunity for the ones that take just a bit of time - a few years back a simple (crappy actually) website I built for a friend ended up holding three of the top ten places for San Francisco Window Washing (until my friend's genius partner redid  it 100% Flash).

[ukgimp]

Payloadz has been mentioned as well