On 2008-08-04 11:28, John Pinner wrote:
Hello Marc André
2008/8/3 M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Perhaps slightly off-topic, but I thought I'd mention it anyway:
You can simplify your whole registration and payment a lot if you go
for a payment processing service like ShareIT (owned by Digital
River). They take care of all the payment processing for, you can
customize the interface, integrate it into your system, etc.
Integration is easy as well: the system does an HTTP POST call to
your system, this has to return some text and that is sent on to the
customer. They take care of all the invoicing, billing, etc.
ShareIT accepts all sorts of credit cards, money transfers, checks,
PayPal, etc.
It may be a bit more expensive, but believe me, it sure makes life
easier.
And no, I'm not affiliated with them in any way :-)
You told me about this at EuroPython. I looked at it, but really it
doesn't do any more for us than the shopping cart we're using for EP
and PyCon UK (Romancart).
They do provide 24/7 phone support for the customers and
take care of all the paper work, billing and invoicing.
One detail I'm not sure about is how they handle VAT for a non-profit.
That would be something to look into, since they normally operate as
reseller, thus the purchase of the customer is between the customer and
ShareIT, not between customer and the entity using ShareIT for
payment processing.
One issue is that regardless of which
Payment Services Provider you use, you still have to go through your
bank, and there are problems with cost here. Using PayPal this is a
lot easier and cheaper (we only pay per transaction), whereas with
most other options you have to pay a monthly charge as well. paying 12
month standing charges for 2/3 month use gets expensive.
FWIW: ShareIT doesn't have a monthly charge.
Anyway, just thought I'd mention it.
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