[LRUG] Recurring Payments and subscriptions

Thu Sep 1 11:17:03 PDT 2011

Aww, you should have waited until tomorrow as it would have been the threads
first birthday.  Never mind though, early presents are always nice ;)
On Sep 1, 2011 5:59 PM, "Tim Harding" <tim.harding at gmail.com> wrote:
> Opening up this old beauty again:
>
> Has anyone had specific experience with Recurly + Sage Pay + Sage Pay's
bundled merchant account provider Elavon?
>
> It appears that Recurly's hosted payment pages don't meet some of the
requirements that Sage Pay mandates around black-listed countries and
badging. Elavon, the merchant account provider require VbV or 3D Secure, at
which point Recurly can't support them.
>
> Recurly is an "Approved Partner" for Sage Pay…
>
> Assembling a string of three providers that work together well seems to be
a real pain in the arse.
>
> Apparently Barclays and HSBC are both pretty relaxed about 3D Secure/VbV
so there's some hope in that direction.
>
>
>
> On Monday, 31 January 2011 at 15:02, Paul Campbell wrote:
>
>> Paypal Payments Standard is really a fantastic, fantastic solution,
>> for what it is.
>>
>> With some coaxing, you can also get Paypal Payments Express up and
>> running, which is slightly less obtrusive, and lets you use their API
>> rather than IPN to be sure a payment goes through:
>>
>>
http://www.codyfauser.com/2008/1/17/paypal-express-payments-with-activemerchant
>>
>> +1 for RealEx with a merchant account, but getting a merchant account,
>> for me, isn't really worth the hassle when it's an MVP. I have one,
>> but I'm paying monthly for the privilege and not making enough back to
>> cover it!
>>
>> —P
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Chris Parsons
>> <chris at edendevelopment.co.uk (mailto:chris at edendevelopment.co.uk)> wrote:
>> > On 31 January 2011 13:54, Tim Harding <tim.harding at gmail.com (mailto:
tim.harding at gmail.com)> wrote:
>> > > It's a shame you've had a different experience, it was a very easy
way to
>> > > get up and going on day one for us.
>> >
>> > Same here: I got Paypal up and running a few years back very easily
>> > using recurring payments. We did go through the same process that Tim
>> > did, verifying our bank accounts etc, but it wasn't much hassle. Our
>> > implementation is a very simple subscribe button which redirects to
>> > Paypal's payment pages, so that might explain the difference.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Chris
>> >
>> > > On 30 January 2011 16:40, George Palmer <george.palmer at gmail.com(mailto:
george.palmer at gmail.com)> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > I've had numerous problems in the past getting PayPal to turn
recurring
>> > > > > billing on. You need to pay for their Website Payments Pro
account,
>> > > > > which is
>> > > > > not a simple transaction: it's pretty much a full merchant
account
>> > > > > application, and the bar they ask you to jump over is relatively
high.
>> > > > > You
>> > > > > need to have been trading for 3+ years with them, and have a
reasonable
>> > > > > trading history with them on their standard package before
they'll
>> > > > > really
>> > > > > consider you, in my experience.
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm not sure if that's still the case, or if it is, we seemed to
have
>> > > > slipped through the net. We setup on a new business account and at
>> > > > the time of applying for recurring payments, had been a company for
>> > > > less than 2 years.
>> > > >
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