Thanks Jeff, On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Ted Byers <r.ted.by...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Steve Marquess >> <marqu...@opensslfoundation.com> wrote: >>> ... >> >> Have you checked out Google and Amazon's payment services? I have >> heard they exist, but haven't checked them out for cost (I may do so, >> and soon, as the Canadian bank's support for ecommerce leaves >> everything to be desired: try finding any documentation for their API, >> or even if they have such an API, for any of the big 5 in Canada). > Google Wallet (I think that's what it was called) sucked from my past > experience. Failed authorizations gave ambiguous or incorrect reasons; > and once a transaction was corrected, there was no way to resubmit or > re-try the transaction. >> There were a few times my transaction was blocked due to DLP. Once I > called the bank and cleared it, I had to submit a new transaction > because the previous could not be re-tried. Then, the new transaction > caused the past transaction to be re-tried, so I'd end up with two > orders. Then there was no way to contact a real person at Google to > fix it (only self-help crap). >
This is good to know. It is hardly the first transaction processing service that lI have encountered that leaves something to be desired. I wonder, now, if Braintree is better (at least they appear to have real people that can be contacted). > Its been my experience that Amazon is better. I've gotten the books > and hardware I've purchased through them. But I never experienced > Google-like problems with Amazon, so I don't know Amazon reacts to > adverse events like stalled transactions (perhaps that speaks volumes > in itself). > Yes, it does. On the down side, though, as a vendor, the customers from whom you can accept payment are limited to those who have Amazon accounts (unless I misunderstood some of their documentation), but if they have an easy means for your other customers to create Amazon accounts, that may not be a significant gotcha. One of the things I occasionally have to do is connect my systems to processors we haven't dealt with before, and every one of them has an issue or three that, shall we say, makes life interesting. You wouldn't believe the amount of extra code I have had to write to deal properly with deficiencies in the processor's services. :-( > Your mileage may vary. > > Jeff > Thanks Ted -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
