Best payment solution for new ecommerce site

paypal vs worldpay vs authorize.net vs checkout.com

[sleepy]

Hi,

Im process of building a new ecommerce site and have the option of the following ways taking money ..

paypal
worldpay
authorize.net
checkout.com

Im thinking of going paypal and checkout.com initally or should I just bite the bullet and go paypal and worldpay?

Is worldpay better or worse han authorize.net?

And can I have several sites linked to the one worldpay account?

Thanks,
steve

[aspdaddy]

Worldpay has some issues at the moment :), though overall v good.

>And can I have several sites linked to the one worldpay account?

Yes

[jweighell]

You can potentially have more than one site point to Worldpay. I think the problem is knowing where to return to once payment is complete...

You get to customise transaction completed and failed pages. You would normally put a link back to your site on these pages - not sure how this could be done with multiple pages, without providing a link to all of your sites. Although this might not be a bad thing ;)

[aspdaddy]

You can pas a custom variable back, and then do a redirect based on its value.

[hakre]

checkout:
PayPal and the alternatives [webmasterworld.com]

[shrewsbury matt]

Worldpay will allow multiple websites, just email them and ask for another installation ID.

This way you can customise the emails and return pages for each of your sites, and the site name will be listed next to each transaction on your statement.

There is no charge for an additional installation ID.

[jweighell]

You learn something new every day ;) Please ignore me!

[JoeHouse]

New question. I have an ecommerce site in which my website processing time at check-out is too slow which is causing time out errors and lost orders.

2nd problem is I have my account setup where I get pre-authorization first from authorize.net. Now if it takes too long I end up receiving their credit card receipt but my office pages loses the order.

Which means I have the embarrassing task of calling up my customer and explaining the promblem.

Can anyone out there tell me is there a simple way to automate all this and still maintain high connection speed without timing out or losing orders?

Thanks.