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

On Mon, 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)? Doesn't paypal only charge when someone pays with a credit card? If they pay out of their bank account there is no charge to the recipient.