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I am concluding the development of my site, and it will be a fee based site. I am charging a monthly fee, that I would to be able to set up a recurring charge on a credit card if possible (as I believe this will be the easiest way for both the customers and myself).
I have looked into echo and they seem to be a pretty viable solution, as does paypal.
I will be charging less than $6 per month for the customer, FYI.
Any help would be appreciated. I am looking for a combination of most inexpensive (fee wise) and easiest for the customer to use.
Also because I will only have one "product" so to say, is a shopping cart system needed?
George
I don't want to put echo's URL here as I think it would be edited, but can I get you both to look at echo and tell me if it is missing something that I cannot see?
Email me and I will email you the link.
Are U?
Had a browse round, and a couple of things i could not find, (sure they are there!), but you need to consider:
1) Do you pay for ALL transactions, including fraud, or just the ones you accept? (Many people will not admit it, but there are plenty of fraudsters out there trying to test cards and buy services.)
2) Are there plenty of checks done on the card holder/customer. Not just, "are there funds in the account", but have they given a correct address, postcode etc. Otherwise, you get so many chargebacks, the bank will close you down.
An extra % or so on the rate is Nothing , if you are consistantly ripped off. Not just the money, but the time and bandwith. (Painful when you are nudging over a new bandwidth payment level, and some sd is at your store every day with 25 cards to check for his mates!
Hope this helps
George
I think that all my transactions will come from inside the U.S. At least for the first year or so of the site as I try to grow it out. But I don't see much activity coming from other countries except maybe Canada, as my target market is mainly small business owners.
I am glad you brought up those two points. I would never have thought about that. I need to ask about paying for ALL transactions. I assume when you say checks you mean contact info verification, in which I think that there are, but that is another great question to ask them.
My only concern with echo is that I need to write some sort of code which will take the information from the "shopping cart" to their transaction area. I don't really understand this part, but I have a really good friend programmer who I think won't have any trouble with this. He has dealt with ecommerce things before but with more established companies.
Again thanks for the insight, any other tips would be great.
good Luck :)
Do you use Paypal? If so can you talk a little about your experience with them and if any of your customers would not use paypal?
Also, the issues that George spoke of above, do you know how paypal handles those?
In the Paypal "Profile" section, you can configure an acceptable risk level. You can choose if you want to accept payments from customers with an "unverified" mailing address or not.
Of all the cart systems I've used, Paypal IMO, is by far the quickest. You can pre-fill form fields only requiring your customer to sign up or enter their password if they already have an account. Test drive it yourself :: Click on the "donate" button on the upper right corner! :)
