uk online payments

Paul Richards paul at freebsd-services.com
Tue Apr 29 16:02:47 BST 2003


On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:37:46PM +0000, Paul Richards wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:15:47PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:57:02PM +0000, Dimitris wrote:
> > > this is a bit offtopic, but i'd appriciate any help.
> > > 
> > > i've been meaning to build a small site to sell some
> > > personal software that i've been developing.
> > > 
> > > their cost is very very small, around 10 ukpounds each.
> > 
> > You might want to try www.esellerate.net.  A company I just bought some
> > shareware from used them, and from the customer's point of view (i.e.,
> > mine) it was painless.  I tap in my credit card number and other details
> > and it just worked.
> > 
> > I was particularly impressed to discover that although the product was
> > $9.99, it worked out that I was in the UK (probably using some IP <->
> > Location mapping) and switched the default currency to GBP, converting
> > the price as it did so.
> 
> 
> They charge 10%, that's one of the most expensive rates I've ever seen. On the simple/low cost
> side of things you might want to look at Netbanx.

To follup up on this, I've since discovered 
http://www.protx.com  who seem to charge a flat fee of 5p per
transaction with no setup fee or other monthly charges.

I'm going to look into them some more, but compared to the alternatives
this seems like a bargain. You will need your owb merchant account of
course since this is just a transaction processing service.

-- 
Paul Richards




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