Payment Processing Sites? Besides PayPal?

iBuddy

I would like to know if anyone knows anything more about payment processing that has recurring plans? (besides paypal) and the rates and if you recommend them

MarkR

That depends entirely on who is the merchant and what country you're in.

I'm in the UK and have worked with many payment providers other than paypal. Many banks run them, or work with existing PSPs.

In some cases (e.g. Protx, Datacash), the merchant needs a merchant account (in the UK at least).

Talk to the merchant's bank about exactly what they can do and who they recommend.

Mark

discostudio

If your in the UK, try www.protx.com, they are excellent, I have been using them for 4 years. Takes a little integration, but worth every hour of work!

stolzyboy

payflow (originally by verisign) now owned by paypal but still the verisign product, work well

Roger_Ramjet

Well, you're lucky cos you're in the US so have many more options than we do in the UK where the banking system has get very tight with merchant acquirer accounts over the last 3 years. We have to have been trading for 2 years now before they will issue an account - makes it very difficult for a new start-up even if it is a limited company and the people involved have excellent track records in business.

I came across Google Checkout the other day which is advertising FREE transactions for 2007. Only available in the USA for now. Their normal rates are far better than PayPal's anyway, but free is better than anything. Not looked into all the features cos I'm in the UK, but being Google I'm sure they have all the features that other providers have.

Otherwise, if you use accounting software like Quickbooks then it is probably integrated with payment processing - again only in the US - and you can then use your accounts package to handle subscriptions and repeat billings.

If you have a merchant account then I can only recommend SECPay . Used them since 2001 and they are excellent: easy to integrate, fully documented API, personalised pages on their secure server and very competitive charges.

ultranet

hello

Well I like paypal which is more secured. How do you think about E-gold?
I had this rumor that e-gold is going to stop their transacation sometime in future due to lots of illegal transaction? is that true?/

thanks

Elizabeth

You can also look at Authorize.net; I've not heard anything bad about them and I have a few clients using them. We personally use Verisign (now paypal) and the support simply stinks. As far as cost goes, though, they are very competitive.