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Online payment integration does not have to suck.

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Re: Online payment integration does not have to suck.

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Post by grigory »

zabeth24 wrote: post #18
grigory wrote: post #17

Looks good guys! Congratulations to founders on going live with the site! I'd love to try this out, but a facebook login wall is preventing me from doing so. I personally don't have an account, but I can see others not wanting to connect their facebook accounts with their businesses.

We're considering allowing users to have a Willet account (ie. new user name and pw). Aren't people sick of having so many logins these days? That was part of the incentive to use FB - keep things simple!

I personally don't mind creating an account for a service I find valuable. Especially if it's going to be dealing with money. In that case, I would rather create a dedicated account than rely on some external party.

I think when you're talking about a payment integration system, having to create an account is not what will stop "sellers", as you call them, from signing up. It's probably different for end users though.

Re: Online payment integration does not have to suck.

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Post by zabeth24 »

grigory wrote: post #21
zabeth24 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're considering allowing users to have a Willet account (ie. new user name and pw). Aren't people sick of having so many logins these days? That was part of the incentive to use FB - keep things simple!

I personally don't mind creating an account for a service I find valuable. Especially if it's going to be dealing with money. In that case, I would rather create a dedicated account than rely on some external party. I think when you're talking about a payment integration system, having to create an account is not what will stop "sellers", as you call them, from signing up. It's probably different for end users though…

Fair enough. I'll bump this to the front of the feature queue!

Re: Online payment integration does not have to suck.

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Post by jtregunna »

wolever wrote: post #15
maxhack wrote: post #5

Nice! How you deal with the risk involved with letting willet users' customers run up a tab? Or am I not understanding this correctly...

Most content has a marginal cost of almost zero (eg, apps, music, etc)… So the only real “risk” is lost sales (ie, people who would have purchased if they weren't able to steal it). But IMO it's unlikely that there are many people who would rather go to the effort of stealing content which they could get for ~$1. (full disclosure: I'm a friend of the Willet devs)

Funny, I recall billing one of my last clients significantly more than almost zero to develop an app for them. Apps cost real money to build, and real money to maintain.

Re: Online payment integration does not have to suck.

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Post by wolever »

jtregunna wrote: post #27
wolever wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most content has a marginal cost of almost zero (eg, apps, music, etc)… So the only real “risk” is lost sales (ie, people who would have purchased if they weren't able to steal it). But IMO it's unlikely that there are many people who would rather go to the effort of stealing content which they could get for ~$1. (full disclosure: I'm a friend of the Willet devs)

Funny, I recall billing one of my last clients significantly more than almost zero to develop an app for them. Apps cost real money to build, and real money to maintain.

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand the context of your comment.

Are you pointing out that the upfront cost of digital content is high? Because, if that's the case, I entirely agree. I'm simply saying that the marginal cost of digital goods is close to zero, so theft of such goods is only a problem if it's done in lieu of purchasing them.

Re: Online payment integration does not have to suck.

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Post by notJim »

zabeth24 wrote: post #18
grigory wrote: post #17

Looks good guys! Congratulations to founders on going live with the site! I'd love to try this out, but a facebook login wall is preventing me from doing so. I personally don't have an account, but I can see others not wanting to connect their facebook accounts with their businesses.

We're considering allowing users to have a Willet account (ie. new user name and pw). Aren't people sick of having so many logins these days? That was part of the incentive to use FB - keep things simple!

I think it goes both ways. I personally prefer not having to create an account, but others are concerned about privacy, don't want their accounts linked (like in BSG), or don't have accounts.
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