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If you want another perspective on this, we have to answer these kinds of questions a trillion times a week at FreshBooks. We're posting a guide to help people
by sunir 16y ago
If you want another perspective on this, we have to answer these kinds of questions a trillion times a week at FreshBooks. We're posting a guide to help people get through it.
The most salient post is Part II, which helps people choose their gateways.
http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2010/04/30/part-2-how-do-payment-gateways-work-and-how-to-choose-one/ http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2010/04/30/part-2-how-do-paym...
Speaking as someone who frequently has to call into the payment gateways' customer support on behalf of our customers who have hit a brick wall, personally, I like to keep life easy. I recommend PayPal Standard if you're doing less than $2000-$5000 a month in transactions, and then Authorize.net or PayPal Payflow Pro.
- bvi 16y agoHow easy/painful would it be to switch from PayPal Standard to Authorize.Net or PayPal Payflow Pro, if the situation arises?
- sunir 16y agoMoving from PayPal Standard to anything is pretty easy since for most people it's a very simple payment service. The other gateways are more complex since you cannot migrate the credit cards, and if you have recurring profiles managed on the gateway, you will have a harder time moving as you'll have to convince your customers to punch in their credit card again.
- ovi256 16y ago>you'll have to convince your customers to punch in their credit card again. Give them a free month, or 5 free GB, or what have you.