Early on, I made a point of sending users a license and commenting on the fact that I was doing it even though there was an "uncleared e-check." The vast, vast majority of paypal users had no idea what this even meant.
After a while, I switched my strategy to treat echecks as purchases. I have since cleared thousands of transactions and ever once had a fraudulent echeck purchase. In my opinion, unless your business for some reason attracts eCheck fraud, or you issue products which for some reason cannot be reasonably revoked (i.e. invalidating a license in future update), it is a waste of time to treat echeck payments any differently from full-fledged payments. Daniel On Jan 14, 2010, at 10:57am, 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! > > cheers, > m. > > -- > http://www.mildmanneredindustries.com/ > ------------------------------------ MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
