Re: Affordable low-fee e-commerce - DIY?

On Feb 18, 2013, at 1:26 PM, George Langley <george.langley@shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi all. Am wanting to build a site where people can donate $1.00 but is not for charity or > other non-profit per se. So if I use PayPal, with their 2.9% + .30 per transaction fee, that equals > .33 cents for each dollar - that's a full third of the amount the people would be giving. > Credit cards appear to be similar, with some percantage and about .22 cents per transactions. > Am wondering what other options I'm missing, that won't take such a chunk out of the > low price? Is it easy enough to code to some other API for free (or at least cheaper)? > Thanks. > > > George Langley > Interactive Developer I don't have any problems with people paying me via PayPal -- PayPal provides a service and they deserve a piece of the action. In fact, I never have problems with people donating $5 to my cause (me) via my site -- and it happens. For example, I had one guy donate $100. I'm waiting for someone to better that. :-) Cheers, tedd _____________________ tedd@sperling.com http://sperling.com