Actually not (lots of moving parts).
You get your merchant account (which may be some paperwork, they want
to know that you are who you say you are). They provide a library/jar
that you can load into your application/website. Maybe a little code
to interface theirs to yours, set a few configuration parameters, do
some testing, and you're done. They provide instructions for doing
all the software integration/configuration/testing.
Tom
On Dec 21, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Stefan Reitshamer wrote:
> Does anyone know of a write-up on how to set this up?
> I'd like to do it, but it seems like there are a lot of moving parts.
>
> - Stefan
> http://www.haystacksoftware.com
>
> On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Ryan Britton wrote:
>
>> A full merchant account setup is fairly cheap and easy, so I'm not
>> sure why that hasn't been thrown out there as an option. My rates
>> are 2.2% for qualified (i.e., AVS matches) Visa/MasterCard
>> transactions, 2.9% unqualified, and American Express/Discover
>> slightly higher. These are full merchant accounts tied into the
>> Authorize.net gateway and run $15/mo + $0.20 per transaction fixed.
>>
>>
>> On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:19 AM, David wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I can appreciate that the CEO of Fastspring was attentive enough
>>> to respond directly to emails and web postings, but their rate is
>>> extremely high IMO. We were paying a net (ie, with fees) 5-6%
>>> with a merchant account provider that worked out fine
>>> (Cardservice International) and was easy to integrate into our
>>> own shopping cart. But I felt that was too high a rate, and
>>> switched to the paypal merchant account (which was a tough
>>> process to get into, compared to the regular paypal payments
>>> processing, but worth it). For November our total fees from them
>>> were under 4% so I'm happy with the move as it's saved me several
>>> hundred dollars a month.
>>>
>>> If you're looking at an alternative to Paypal, I'd do your
>>> homework as there are many providers around the 4% + fees rates
>>> which seems to be a lot cheaper than what you're looking into
>>> there, and that can add up quick!
>>>
>>> --- In [email protected], John Fox <j...@...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello:
>>>>
>>>> Just wanted to chime in. Back in 2008, I posted on the list
>>>> about having my PayPal account frozen because I withdrew ~$10K
>>>> at one time. This happened the morning of Macworld starting,
>>>> which was not fun. After getting my account unfrozen, I've not
>>>> had any problems, but I have been very nervous.
>>>>
>>>> This past Thursday, I started looking into FastSpring, and have
>>>> been blown away by their professionalism and responsiveness.
>>>> While they do have direct Aquatic Prime support, you can't add
>>>> custom key/value pairs, which is delaying my using them right
>>>> away. I have to echo the sentiment that it's worth having
>>>> multiple payment processor options. I suspect that in the near
>>>> future FastSpring will be my primary with PayPal as the backup.
>>>
>>>
>>
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