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What's the best online payment processing solution?

Posted by jmpeters on Friday August 10, 2007 @01:58PM
from the self-post dept.
I'm looking for an online credit card payment processing solution that can handle recurring monthly payments. I'm open to linking off of my site to a hosted provider, so long as I can sufficiently customize the look-and-feel. I'm also open to a lower-level code-it-yourself type of solution. Of course I don't want to spend too much time on this, and I want it to be cheap. :) Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences.
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Re:What's the best online payment processing solution? by jmpeters on Friday August 10, 2007 @04:24PM (#41336)
Great info, thanks.

Paysimple looks pretty good: http://www.paysimple.com/competitors.html . Anyone have any first-hand experience with it?

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Re:What's the best online payment processing solution? by epi0Bauqu on Friday August 10, 2007 @04:42PM (#41341)
As I noted in one of those links, I've had success with Cybersource in the past. Their small business division is pretty competitive. For recurring payments, I just stored the cards encrypted and re-billed when necessary. It really wasn't too difficult or time consuming.
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Re:What's the best online payment processing solution? by augustus on Friday August 10, 2007 @05:35PM (#41350)
i have some experience with this.

i researched a lot of payment gateways such as authorize.net but decided against it because they have a lot of fixed costs which you can only recuperate with high volume.

Also online processors have a lot of procedures, credit checks etc. which is a lot of pain.

I went with paypal but had a lot of trouble with theiragent when dealing with fraud.

I would probably try amazon if I was doing it today.

Once you have an established volume you can switch to a dedicated service like authorize.net. Until then it is better to pay per transaction.

Regards.

-Augustus

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Re:What's the best online payment processing solution? by ivankirigin on Friday August 10, 2007 @02:45PM (#41309)
People seem to like PayPal, and are used to the checkout process. I'd also like to hear about how customizable it is, as I'll be working on it in a few weeks.
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Re:What's the best online payment processing solution? by zviband on Friday August 10, 2007 @03:01PM (#41313)
amazon's new flexible payments system
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Re:What's the best online payment processing solution? by rrival on Friday August 10, 2007 @03:08PM (#41316)
Fwiw, FPS, while progressive in comparison to PayPal in that its % cut increases as Amazon's costs do, is, unfortunately, limited to US customers at the moment.
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Re:What's the best online payment processing solution? by iamyoohoo on Friday August 10, 2007 @03:58PM (#41329)
I've used authorize.net in the past. They were recently acquired by cybersource.
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