[LRUG] Recurring Payments and subscriptions

[Jason Green]

OMG that is a bad experience with google checkout.

We have built quite a number of sites here with many different types of payment gateways and billing management and I can say that the one that has disappointed the most is SagePay which has been consistently bad over the last year (service outages, invalid transactions etc,,,), paypal has been consistently good but thats just my experience.

I think you can create subscriptions in paypals merchant account to roll your own billing system?

Jason Green
http://www.dynamic50.com


On 28 Jan 2011, at 15:21, Paul Wilson wrote:

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> On 28 Jan 2011, at 15:13, Jason Green wrote:
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>> Maybe I am missing the point here, but why not use paypal, or google checkout (if you don't need recurring)?
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> The plan up until this morning was to do recurring.  Circumstances have forced us to reconsider, and we're kicking off with PayPal.
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>> Paypal does recurring: https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/subscr-intro-outside and also micro-payments. 
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> Yes, but that involves "rolling our own billing system".
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>> When you get to the stage that paypals' 5% is loosing you more than it would cost to implement a proper payment gateway, the company bank account would be showing a healthy enough balance and history to get verified / credit checked.
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> The risky side of PayPal is that (in my experience of dealing with them every year for the Scottish Ruby Conference) they are a massive and faceless bureaucracy that frequently suspends accounts with little warning or explanation.  I think they are risky to rely on.  Google don't seem to be any better(*)
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> (*) http://slash7.com/2009/03/26/google-is-evil-worse-than-paypal-don-t-use-google-checkout-for-your-business/
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