Martin Redington wrote: > > > Hi all (and a happy new year!) > > I use paypal for payment processing, mostly without issue. > > Every once in a while (low single percentage figures) I get a paypal > "echeque" payment. I've never looked at these from a user's > perspective, but as a merchant, you get a callback from paypal for a > transaction, marked as"pending" - i.e. not yet completed. > > At some later point (typically 5 or so days), paypal sends you an > email confirming that the cheque has cleared, and that you can now > despatch the goods in question. > > I usually issue the license at this point. > > I was just wondering how other people handle these? > > Do you issue a license at the time of purchase, or wait? Generally > I've found that the payments almost always clear successfully, > although in the case of the sale that prompted me to post this query, > it turns out that the cheque has bounced! >
I send a temporary 5-day key and then send the permanent key when their echeque clears. They can take up to 10 days, in which case I am happy to send a 2nd temporary key on request. best regards Andy Brice http://www.perfecttableplan.com http://www.successfulsoftware.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
