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Google checkout is one of those mostly-USA only for merchants things, yet again. Paypal is far more international, and alternatives tend to be even more expens

by elai 17y ago

Google checkout is one of those mostly-USA only for merchants things, yet again. Paypal is far more international, and alternatives tend to be even more expensive.

onreact-com 17y ago
No, Moneybookers is popular globally as well and it's cheaper plus more reliable and secure.
- lucumo 17y ago
  And has a disaster for a user interface. Once every three months I have to file a tax report and that's when I log in to see each transaction for those three months. Their history form has a "[Go]" button and a "[Search]" button. I press the wrong one each and every time. There is no details page for a transaction and you can only see the item that was sold in a CSS popup that disappears when you mouse away, making it impossible to copy-paste. And then there's the fact that their calculations can be off sometimes. We have some sales that are € 12.75. The transaction costs for that is € 0.44 or € 0.45, I don't know which: the amount field says it's € 0.44, but our balance is actually decreased by € 0.45. That's a rather bad mistake to make as a payment provider... All in all I'm not too happy with Moneybookers. It gets us money and it's cheap, but it's perfectly clear why they are cheap... Edit: Also, Moneybookers sales were less than 5% of the Paypal sales...
  - onreact-com 17y ago
    OK, MB is not perfect either but I still prefer it to PayPal and use it whenever I can. Also MB has some security advantages. You can already notice on the front end (captcha etc.)
    - lucumo 17y ago
      I don't particularly care for the captcha. It annoys me and I'm assuming Paypal has protected against brute-force login attempts differently. It's not like captchas fully protect against those anyway. Paypal really is much more polished. Their reporting is top-notch. They have an API. And they have an interface which doesn't confuse me. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than MB...

by elai 17y ago

Google checkout is one of those mostly-USA only for merchants things, yet again. Paypal is far more international, and alternatives tend to be even more expensive.

onreact-com 17y ago

No, Moneybookers is popular globally as well and it's cheaper plus more reliable and secure.

lucumo 17y ago
And has a disaster for a user interface. Once every three months I have to file a tax report and that's when I log in to see each transaction for those three months. Their history form has a "[Go]" button and a "[Search]" button. I press the wrong one each and every time. There is no details page for a transaction and you can only see the item that was sold in a CSS popup that disappears when you mouse away, making it impossible to copy-paste. And then there's the fact that their calculations can be off sometimes. We have some sales that are € 12.75. The transaction costs for that is € 0.44 or € 0.45, I don't know which: the amount field says it's € 0.44, but our balance is actually decreased by € 0.45. That's a rather bad mistake to make as a payment provider... All in all I'm not too happy with Moneybookers. It gets us money and it's cheap, but it's perfectly clear why they are cheap... Edit: Also, Moneybookers sales were less than 5% of the Paypal sales...
- onreact-com 17y ago
  OK, MB is not perfect either but I still prefer it to PayPal and use it whenever I can. Also MB has some security advantages. You can already notice on the front end (captcha etc.)
  - lucumo 17y ago
    I don't particularly care for the captcha. It annoys me and I'm assuming Paypal has protected against brute-force login attempts differently. It's not like captchas fully protect against those anyway. Paypal really is much more polished. Their reporting is top-notch. They have an API. And they have an interface which doesn't confuse me. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than MB...