Payment/Checkout for selling website

Goldy · 2 Nov 2009 at 12:50

Hi Guys,

I'm creating a website selling electronic goods. I'm undecided on what payment and checkout service to use.

Inclined towards PayPal because its recognised, easy to set up and has reasonably low fees. And for checkout Im thinking Google Checkout.

Could anyone recommend a better payment or checkout provider? Ideally I want the checkout to look unbranded - although this may be a job for the web developer guys...

Much appreciated.

sist_si · 2 Nov 2009 at 12:59

Protx (sorry Sage Pay) are good to integrate with but may cost a bit more than Paypal

gord · 2 Nov 2009 at 13:08

Are you talking completely custom integration?

Have you thought about buying a cart off the shelf that has integration with the payment gateways you might like to use?

Goldy · 2 Nov 2009 at 13:10

Cool, i will check them out thanks. (Re Protx)

Looks like its £20 a month which isn't bad at all considering the goods im selling ain't cheap. (Sage business software is usually super expensive in my experience.)

Goldy · 2 Nov 2009 at 13:13

gord said:
Are you talking completely custom integration?

Have you thought about buying a cart off the shelf that has integration with the payment gateways you might like to use?

Completely custom integration is what Im looking for yes. I want it to be unbranded if possible. Any ideas who offers the off-the-shelf cart?

gord · 2 Nov 2009 at 13:15

The top carts all offer a range of pre-existing integrations.

But Interspire shopping cart is the one our company chose and has pre-built integration with ProtX (as far as I know nothing has changed since name changing to SagePay). Also has pre-built integration with PayPal's various offerings.

suarve · 2 Nov 2009 at 14:09

Goldy said:
Completely custom integration is what Im looking for yes. I want it to be unbranded if possible. Any ideas who offers the off-the-shelf cart?

Paypal - website payments pro.

MrMason · 2 Nov 2009 at 15:44

Remember that with Protx you will also need a merchant account with your Bank, so there are more fees there.

Hutchy · 2 Nov 2009 at 15:48

Do the math on Paypal API and Sagepay for complete integrations and find out which will work out best for your products taking into account the amount of items sold.

malef!c · 3 Nov 2009 at 07:38

Dropped PayPal for online payments when I used to do hosting, they always seemed to find a way of screwing me as the seller!

Finally decided on Google Checkout and that was very handy - covered teh majority of cards that were likely to be used via PayPal anyway.

3.4% and 20p per transaction isn't that bad in my opinion....

Good Luck