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

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Post by bond »

sixtofour wrote: post #9

If my project was farther along than a gleam in my eye at the moment, I'd consider trying this. But while I was considering it, one thing I'd wonder about is how serious and long-lived the service will be. There's nothing to indicate that you aren't serious, but I do wonder about this when I see a new service for something important; will the service go away after I (and my customers) have relied on it? Do others hav…

Generally speaking every commercial business will stay alive as long as it has customers and it's profitable...

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

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Post by gpl1 »

blantonl wrote: post #52

Holding payments with a Net-60 term? That hurts.

Hi, the net 60 is just during the beta period and really there to combat fraud. I assure you it is not to help "bootstrap."

We intend to lower it later to 30 days. Edit: if you email us at feedback@pintpay.com we would consider lowering that number from 60 for approved/verified merchants.

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

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Post by jasonlotito »

kolinko wrote: post #53

"You must be in U.S. to use this page." What if I'm an American Citizen travelling to Europe? What if my company is incorporated in U.S.? Banning IPs is uncool.

Yeah, that doesn't matter. Being an American Citizen or being a company in the US doesn't matter. As an American living abroad, I know the pain. It affects not only payment processing regulations, but also copyright as well. For example, despite being a Netflix subscriber, I cannot access Netflix while inside the US.

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

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Post by gpl1 »

jkkramer wrote: post #44

Allowing subscriptions to be charged yearly would be nice.

Great idea! The reason we didn't include this is because yearly automatic subscriptions causes chargebacks, due to people forgetting about an annual charge. Something we might implement is a renewal type annual feature, which will remind customers to renew.

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

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Post by bitsm »

gpl1 wrote: post #8
bitsm wrote: post #4

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.)

Yeah, as others have pointed out, that doesn't answer the question. I'm familiar with transparent redirects offered by Braintree and SpreedlyCore.

But Linode (mentioned in the footer) is not PCI compliant by default, so it's worth asking what they are doing since they DO touch the credit cards.

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

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Post by bitsm »

chopsueyar wrote: post #7
bitsm wrote: post #4

Are you guys PCI compliant?

Seriously?

Since I don't have to be PCI-compliant, it's doubly important that the company I'm trusting to handle my customers' data is doing their job right.

It'd be irresponsible NOT to ask.

A small, three-guy startup running on Linode with little to no background in payment processing or security doesn't automatically win my business.

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