Re: Paypal Integration

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Dan Joseph <dmjoseph@gmail.com> wrote: > Revolution Money Exchange just started up a few months ago. Its owned by a > bank (although I can't recall which). Same concept as far as I can tell, > although I don't think they have any business services yet. > > Another note I should add. And I touched on this in my first post about > this. Do not solely rely on PayPal. Shop around for your credit card > services. PayPal is quite expensive in comparison. I myself only use them > to accept PayPal payments, not visa/mc. There was another one a long time ago - I forget. I want to say Yahoo started one and it was backed with a bank, and then after what seemed like only a few months, dropped it. Trying to battle Paypal alone wouldn't be the worst, but trying to battle Paypal+eBay is going to be hard. I'd expect Paypal receives 90%+ of it's users via eBay and the majority of the income to start out came from it too (hence why eBay bought them) - so I think it's hard for anyone to get into the market. (There's some shadyness with eBay too that I've read about in the past...) Anyway - use authorize.net for example. They've got a simple documented HTTP based API and it can interface with every major shopping cart package/etc. Like you said - use Paypal only for Paypal payments. Don't use them for anything else :)