Introduction To Online Payments - TL;DR: It's A Total Bitch
- PayPal Website Payments Pro
- Braintree Gateway + Account
- Authorize.net + Merchant Account (add Auth.net's CIM, Braintree's vault, or Recurly if you need vendor flexibility)
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1) There is much more than meets the eye when choosing a merchant account provider, and not all are created equal (it's very true that very few understand online payments). We will be first to say that providing merchant account services to online merchants is very challenging for a host of reasons. Because it's so complex and because there are so many moving parts, no one is immune to mistakes, misunderstandings, complex situations and difficult situations. With that said, the importance of choosing the right provider cannot be overstated. Merchants need to find a company they can trust because when stuff happens (i.e. account closure, reserves) you need someone in your corner that can help navigate. In our experience, merchants are most likely to make mistakes when solely focused on price.
2) I'm very pleased to see you call out data portability. We were the first in the industry to start raising the alarm bells about providers holding stored credit card data hostage. It's a huge issue with very serious implications. To address this problem, we created the Credit Card Data Portability Standard and invited all providers to participate (http://bit.ly/a0i86v).
>Regarding First Data, I believe they have ~5 processing platforms, each of which requires a separate integration. We connect to Nashville because they've focusing the most attention there and because it's online payment friendly.
We've been blogging about this complex industry for years now trying to help educate merchants. Here is one resource to contribute to yours: New to Payments - http://bit.ly/cIY58t
Bryan Johnson
Braintree
Didn't realize about the congressional prodding that is going on. Though if it's anything like the 'investigations' into text message fees with wireless carriers, it won't last too long :(
Finally, I saw an article on HN yesterday claiming that anyone even integrating with something like braintree/authorize.net would need to get some sort of PCI compliance this year. Do you have any knowledge/opinions of that?
Considering that processing payments directly from a merchant site through a gateway is so common, if this article is correct, then that probably means 70% of small merchants will not be in compliance after July 1st. Additionally, using a shared host or cloud service is not possible for compliance as compliance means being on a dedicated PCI compliant, audited server, which is expensive for small guys.
Of course enforcement of these rules across the board is not practical and that doesn't seem to be the motivation of the rule change. What is probably the case is that if you are a small merchant taking credit card orders through a site and the site is hacked, the credit card companies have the right to rain down a shit storm on you for non-compliance.
Like everything in the payments industry, the rules are way more complicated than one would reasonably expect.
re: First Data Nashville vs. First Data Omaha -- First Data has been built through many acquisitions and have a really hard time sunsetting platforms because of really gnarly reverse compatibility issues (imagine having to maintain reverse compatibility for millions of currently installed semi-smart payment terminals -- ick). Each of their platforms has slightly different features. A major rationale for the KKR buyout of FD was to consolidate platforms to generate cost savings.
In a 'by the way' type of comment you mentioned SVB, Square 1 as banks that are 'better' for online merchants.
Do you have other examples of such banks?
I have reached out to Square 1 and they seem really pleasant and awesome, but unfortunately they don't offer services in Jamaica. SVB is to get back to me, but I would like to find out about other banks like that, that I can possibly take advantage of.
Thanks.
As said above - good clarification on a complex subject. Thx
No global provider (Paypal, Auth.net, Worldpay, etc) will touch businesses located in this country, so our choice is limited to... *one* bank here that offers e-commerce solutions.
[sigh]
>Here's an article I wrote a while back that covers the various payment options, and the fees involved:
http://www.elated.com/articles/ecommerce-take-payments-online/
Cheers,
Matt
At least PayPal Website Payments Pro is only available in the US, Canada and UK. So it effectively can't be used in most places around the world. Hence it's no viable option for international e-commerce.
Also, PayPal's transaction fees go a little lower than you mention on your graph; for Express Checkout payments, they drop to 1.4% + £0.20 for U.K.-based merchants, while for other payments they go down to 1.9% + £0.20. Certainly in the U.K., these fees are pretty competitive.
I don't know what the deal is in the United States (different to here, clearly), but having looked at more traditional merchant account-based services and having previously used a payment gateway service, we're pretty happy with PayPal.
We offer an exchange plus account with a free software terminal that can turn non-qualified transactions into qualified transactions. plus determine if signature debit or PIN debit should be used in face-to-face transactions.
I wrote a little about it here: http://jamthoughts.tumblr.com/post/598760745/the-future-of-payment
Would love to hear your thoughts on the mobile payment industry.
Since many businesses today don't want any delays for any transaction especially for salary distribution, they avail of a small business payroll service who can process their payroll needs. With that they save time in processing salary as well as get real time information when paying online.
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