A few members of this list have been bitten by SagePay reliability. Those LRUGers can chip in if they want to elaborate. Personally I remember them being down for a long period of time around 2010. I'm sure I remember an outage that was almost a day long. <span></span><div>
<br></div><div>Something to consider when choosing your gateway. </div><div><br></div><div>S<br><div><br>On Tuesday, August 7, 2012, Rob Sworder wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
I've also been looking into this;<br>
<br>
for UK:<br>
Sage Pay provide a token system (<a href="http://www.sagepay.com/token-system" target="_blank">http://www.sagepay.com/token-system</a>)<br>
Paypal Express (but not Pro?) provide reference transactions (<a href="https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_ECReferenceTxns" target="_blank">https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_ECReferenceTxns</a>)<br>
<br>
and for N.America:<br>
Authorize.net (<a href="http://www.authorize.net/solutions/merchantsolutions/merchantservices/cim/" target="_blank">http://www.authorize.net/solutions/merchantsolutions/merchantservices/cim/</a>)<br>
<br>
Rob Sworder<br>
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>> >> On 7 Aug 2012, at 09:09, J. Pablo Fern?ndez <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'pupeno@pupeno.com')">pupeno@pupeno.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> > Hello rubists!<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> > My startup is getting closer to the point when we start charging.<br>
>> >> > Yay! So... Any recommendation on a merchant, or however you'd call such a<br>
>> >> > provider, that would store the CC number for me and allow me to place a<br>
>> >> > charge of variable amounts every month? Yeah, I know, the trickiest of the<br>
>> >> > cases. The most promising companies offering these types of services that I<br>
>> >> > found all fail at the geographic level: they are US-centric and can't<br>
>> >> > operate in the UK.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> worldpay do offer this service in the uk. You can set up what they call<br>
>> >> a futurepay recurring payment. You can either do a regular payment which<br>
>> >> occurs at fixed intervals (but with a varying amount) or adhoc intervals but<br>
>> >> with a limit (that the user enters when they give the card details to<br>
>> >> worldpay) both on the total amount chargeable per time period and the max<br>
>> >> frequency of payments. I did an integration with the latter a few years back<br>
>> >> and it was relatively straightforward (although we never launched, for a<br>
>> >> bunch of other reasons). Setting up a merchant account with worldpay was a<br>
>> >> bit of a pain - took forever and they wanted all sorts of crazy info to<br>
>> >> verify us (did that bit again quite recently)<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> I believe paypal also have a recurring payments thing, but I finds<br>
>> >> paypals set of products to be utterly confusing.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Fred<br>
>> >><br>
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