Paypal ([ic] wells fargo epay)

[Scott Carter]

Thanks all,  I have made a decent living working with linux (Redhat in
particular).  I was leaning in the direction of donating it.  I've had
several business associates that still don't understand the open source
environment and have been sceptical about the donation.  I need to keep
their opinions in perspective.  Redhat starts on the module on monday...
hopefully it will be released to the list and project before the end of the
week...
Thanks Again,
Scott Carter

----- Original Message -----
From: "JT Justman" <ic@signless.com>
To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: Paypal ([ic] wells fargo epay)


> <<My question is:  If you were me, would you release it to the interchange
> project to be used by all for free if you had to pay for it????>>
>
> Yes, I would. As Rackie pointed out, you'd get better support / bugfixes
> from the community at large. Also, the more options Interchange supports,
> the more people will be interested in using it, the more good minds on the
> list / the more new features done for pay by Redhat. It's like
trickle-down
> Open Source... a year from now, some company may decide to use IC because
> it's the best option out there with support for wells fargo epay. Six
months
> later, they might pay Redhat to design support for some new technology,
> which you could make use of.
>
> <<The next question would also be: would a group of users be willing to
put
> in for a paypal module???
>
> Isn't the only reason to use paypal that it's free (transaction fees
aside)?
> If you want to spend the money, you might as well just put out the cash
for
> any one of the better-supported processors and save your customers the
> paypal account hoops. That is, unless the fabled "silent post" feature
could
> be a reality. I suspect, however, that no matter what you do your customer
> will still be forced to complete part of their checkout on PayPal's
server,
> where you have minimmal control over the checkout process. The customer
> could be unsure who they are buying from, and at the end of the
transaction,
> PayPal states that "Your Transaction is Completed", which may lead the
> customer to close their browser window before looking at your reciept /
> thank you page, where you may relay important information about when the
> order will be shipped, not to mention do a little sales and encourage the
> customer to come back again.
>
> I use PayPal in my store at the moment, since our total investment in this
> site is about $50 plus inventory and hosting fees, and about 500 hours of
my
> time spent learning enough about Interchange, Perl, and SQL to get by. We
> don't expect to be very big right away, but once I get to the point where
I
> expect to make money from the site, I will move on to a more customizable
> processor. Also, using PayPal means that the customer's credit card number
> is never on my server.
>
> I'm a designer, not a programmer, but on my site, I have implemented
PayPal
> fairly seamlessly without even modifying the order routes. I plan to add
> support for their Instant Payment Verification (so that IC will
> automatically check with PayPal to be sure the amount was paid, without
> relying on the success and failure retun URLs) and make it work within the
> order routes sooner or later and post it to the list. If anyone is
> particularly interested in this, let me know off-list and it might intice
me
> to get it done sooner than later.
>
> > Scott Carter
> >
>
> JT Justman
>
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