only skimmed this - but how about Google Checkout? No setup fees, no merchant account, and they accept credit cards and have a full API.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Matthew Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > > I am the webmaster for a small non-profit that helps low income people get > their animals spayed and neutered. > > Every year, we have a calendar contest in which pet owners submit pictures > of their pets. Our site allows people to vote for the entries at $1/vote. > > Currently, we allow them to add votes to their cart. The site stores a > token in the database and then sends them to paypal were they pay for their > votes. After the transaction is complete, they click on the reutrn link on > the paypal site to return to our site. The link contains the token which, > upon returning, counts their votes as paid for. > > The problem we are running into is that some people do not click on the > return link, which results in them paying for votes but the votes not > counting. This causes us to have to do a manual audit of the votes which is > time consuming and causes customers to worry that their vote is not being > counted. > > Because of the cost involved, we are not able to use a traditional credit > card processor for the contest. We would like to continue using paypal for > payments if possible, although I would be willing to use someone else if the > price was right. > > Does anyone offer something that we might be able to use that would solve > this problem? If there is a solution that allows us to process the > transaction without leaving our site that would be great. Alternatively, if > we can get paypal to post a http request to our site automatically once the > transaction is complete that would work as well. > > The contest will only last for a month or two so we would like to avoid > costly set up fees or long term commitments. > > Thank you for your help. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:298197 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
