[LRUG] Recurring Payments and subscriptions

[Andrew Stewart]

On 1 Sep 2011, at 20:02, Tom Blomfield wrote:
> I've been a long-time subscriber to LRUG, and I run a company called GoCardless.com (some people may remember GrouPAY.co.uk from previous LRUG events or Hacker News meetups - GoCardless is the version for businesses.).
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> We enable online merchants to accept Direct Debit with zero set-up costs - really cheap recurring payments with a great REST API (built on Rails) & co-branded "checkout" page.  Currently UK-only, but we're expanding to Europe shortly. You don't need a merchant account or any other payments provider - we provide an end-to-end solution, and we're backed by the RBS.

This sounds really good.  As everybody else has already said, there's no good option in the UK for taking (recurring) payments online.  Somebody needs to "do a Braintree" -- maybe that's you?!

Cheers,
Andy Stewart

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