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Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN

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Re: Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any timeline for "shortly"? Are we talking days, weeks, months? I'm planning a major new release soon and this would be an ideal time to switch payment systems.

webhooks / url postbacks within a week from today

thats the spirit!

Re: Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN

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Are you guys PCI compliant?

Good question. From the FAQ: Do I need to worry about PCI Compliance? Nope! By using PintPay, you never store credit card information on your servers. In fact, that information isn't stored on our servers either. (Edited.)

That didn't answer the question. Just because you don't store credit card information doesn't mean there aren't steps you still have to take to protect cardholder data. PCI compliance applies to both storing and transmitting cc info.

Re: Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN

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Hey Guys - this is pretty cool. On your homepage I would focus on how easy it is to use rather than the price point. Since almost all services are lower than 3.9%. Good luck - looking forward to seeing you guys take on the world.

Hi thanks for the feedback. Here's a quick price comparison:

https://pintpay.com/about/compare

But yeah, we hope to add a lot more value in the future than just handling billing.

Re: Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN

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Here's some feedback: * You should figure out a way not to require the payer to choose a password. Especially if they're already choosing a password on my service, now they're choosing two passwords. I understand that you're using this to handle plan changes and cancellation. * Allow people to sign up for "free" products, too. This could potentially allow people to completely delegate their pricing pages to you, and…

+1 on handling free subscriptions

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Re: Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN

#48
Every merchant agreement I've ever seen doesn't allow you to charge payments for third parties. This is to prevent fraud at a minimum, and I am sure there are myriad other reasons.

I wonder if they arranged special terms with the merchant gateways or if they are just trying to fly under the radar? There's gotta be a reason no one has done this 100x before...

Re: Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN

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Suggestion, you need a big fat section on your site that addresses why I should trust you. Integrating a payment system might be easy, but switching to something else if your system is shut down isnt. So my biggest concern moving to something is, what if your product fails for whatever reason, how can I be assured that I can leave easily and that I will get x days of advance notice. Im sure you can plan for this but letting people know that you'll be around for a long time and what happens in a worst case scenario will help.
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