Re: Paypal Integration

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 12:27 -0700, mike wrote: > 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 :) > I think once Google Checkout goes more global (which it plans to) it will be something to use as a viable alternative to Paypal. There's quite a few large corporations use it already. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk