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Ask HN: Looking for a UK payment provider - recommendations?

7 points by retube 15y ago

Hi All, I'm going bananas trying to get PayPal working. Finding it very confusing, and has constant issues (passwords not accepted, Internal Server Errors blah blah). I mean how hard can this be? All I want to do is accept payments on my site. Can anyone recommend a service that will: - Allow my site to accept credit, debit card payments - Is third party, so I don't process the transaction myself - Doesn't require a merchant ID - Allows me to move funds into a linked UK bank account - Sends me payment notification over http that I can process and update a customer's status - allows auto recurring billing - I don't care if payment form is integrated in an iframe, or is external Is simple and quick to set up. Basically i have a handful of subscription packages that I'd like people to be able to sign up for. Many thanks

profitbaron 15y ago
SagePay - http://www.sagepay.com http://www.sagepay.com
- retube 15y ago
  Requires a merchant id I believe
  - profitbaron 15y ago
    You could use WorldPay - http://www.worldpay.com http://www.worldpay.com - they supply the Merchant account for you.
    - retube 15y ago
      Ok I'll check it out thanks
      - profitbaron 15y ago
        As well as, WorldPay there's also BrainTree - http://www.braintreepayments.com http://www.braintreepayments.com which are worth looking at as well
  - tobylane 15y ago
    Or Paypal apparently.
    - retube 15y ago
      Just called them. Must have merchant id.
evertonfuller 15y ago
We had this issue. Just using Google Checkout for now. Does everything you want, except the auto-recurring billing.
- retube 15y ago
  Unfortunately the recurring billing is critical as this is a monthly subscription service. Thanks for the feedback though.
thejesus 15y ago
Try Paypoint - http://www.paypoint.net/ http://www.paypoint.net/ I haven't used it myself yet, but I certainly will be giving it a go on my next project that requires payment processing!
AngusH 15y ago
have you considered http://fastspring.com http://fastspring.com and its associated subscriptions site http://saasy.com/ http://saasy.com/? They can pay into uk bank accounts directly and I think they meet most of the other points. (disclaimer, uk based customer of fastspring, although not using subscriptions side)
fastspring 15y ago
I'm FastSpring's CEO. We should be able to handle what you need via FastSpring and SaaSy. Feel free to email me directly: dan at fastspring dot com
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