PayPal has a Direct Payment option where the credit card is processed in the background, and the user stays on your page instead of being redirected to PayPal. Essentially, the user doesn't know that PayPal is being used to process their payment. Does Amazon offer something similar?
Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments
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Re: Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments
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I should elaborate :) There is afaik no service, that offers a nice and easy payment integration for small e-commerce websites. Of course you can get all the heavyweight stuff with merchant accounts and so on. But if you're a small garage-shop which wants to accept credit card payments, there is no alternative to paypal (at least in germany). I think there's no need to mention here how much the payment process of pay…
You can let customers pay with a credit card while using PayPal as your gateway. If you're willing to pay the $30/month and setup SSL you can take CC payments on your page using the PayPal gateway, with no account needed by your customers. PayPal still sucks, but if you're losing a lot of sales to the PayPal signup this might be a quick fix. I should be able to dredge up some PHP code if that would help you out. But…
Well, there actually there are 3 things that make me mad about PayPal:
(1) Bad process (users have to create accounts/ passwords before they can checkout)
(2) Rejection of some credit card numbers (happened to some of our customers, due to their PayPal's security measures - the cards worked on other sites)
(3) Blocking of merchant accounts (happened to us twice. Only way to resolve the issue was entering my drivers license + id number, which were not accepted - spent several days trying to get it fixed by phone)
You're absolutely right that one could probably avoid issue (1) by choosing their $30 plan and integrating it into our own website. But I am pretty sure (2) and (3) will still apply, which is nothing but horrible if you are a small business.
Another question: Does anyone have an idea why there is no competition in the market so far? I suppose there must be kind of regulatory issues, although they must be even harder in the US where there is competition.
[AND thanks for your code-offer - I think I'll get that done on my own anyways ;) If not, I'd be happy to get back to you ;))]
Re: Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments
#13Can anyone comment on why Amazon Payments still not available outside of US? Amazon.com operates and accepts payments in EU and Canada. AWS is available in EU. Payments service is available for close to two years. There must be something some other answer than "it just takes time".
At Archivd we accept payments from the EU via FPS. Do you mean that non-US businesses cannot sign up for Amazon Payments?
Exactly. It takes a "US-based credit card". Strange, and annoying.
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#14For the record, Amazon FPS has supported recurring payments for a while now. We've been using them on Obsidian Portal for over a year. What's new is that they've made it slightly easier to integrate with an existing site. This is good news, as the full power of FPS is an awesome and frightening thing to behold.
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Re: Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can let customers pay with a credit card while using PayPal as your gateway. If you're willing to pay the $30/month and setup SSL you can take CC payments on your page using the PayPal gateway, with no account needed by your customers. PayPal still sucks, but if you're losing a lot of sales to the PayPal signup this might be a quick fix. I should be able to dredge up some PHP code if that would help you out. But…
Well, there actually there are 3 things that make me mad about PayPal: (1) Bad process (users have to create accounts/ passwords before they can checkout) (2) Rejection of some credit card numbers (happened to some of our customers, due to their PayPal's security measures - the cards worked on other sites) (3) Blocking of merchant accounts (happened to us twice. Only way to resolve the issue was entering my drivers l…
Absolutely, (2) and (3) are unacceptable. Here's hoping Amazon is better and comes to Germany soon.
Regarding the lack of competition, I found this article very interesting:
http://stakeventures.com/articles/2008/07/22/the-man-finally...
The author's argument is that the US's "Know Your Customer" regulation is the bottleneck. In his words: "KYC since it was introduced in the late 90s as a requirement has been the single most destructive concept for innovation and startups in the financial space."