Payments Questions

Marketing your startup takes many forms. The classical marketing approach revolves around the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion and Place. For this question and answer, we will tackle the Pricing...

Pricing Marketing Payments Subscriptions Canon

asked Aug 6 '11 at 00:54

Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

I created an unverified PayPal account. However, I was able to send a money request email to my wife and there, the big Pay Now button exist and seems to work. Is it possible to get money from...

Payments

asked Aug 10 '11 at 21:05

Saeed Neamati
153 points

I am working on a startup project (software) and I'm really enjoying it. I think the company has great potential. Up until now, the work has been part time and I've been able to fit it into my...

Software Co-Founder Payments Entrepreneurs Business

asked Jul 15 '11 at 12:55

Johnny X
11 points

I am trying to figure out a good payment scheme for my project. I am just confused now. :( This project involved 3 actors. website admin who provide the service/system publisher (who sell space...

Payments

asked Jul 16 '11 at 12:34

Simplyme
186 points

I have a successful tool that has received lots of buzz for the past week or two. The tool is currently free and I hope to adopt a freemium model. I have the following options and I can't decide...

Launch Payments Saas Beta Freemium

asked Jul 5 '11 at 23:12

Lee
8 points

I have the following skillset: xhtml, js, jquery, css, php, C#, asp.net, mysql, oracle, etc. I would be the tech. co-founder of a startup with 2 other co-founder (business end) and be the sole...

Co-Founder Payments Partnerships

asked Jul 8 '11 at 09:27

User9968
229 points

I'm preparing a digital product that I'm going to sell in the days to come. I am a programmer, so I don't have any problems in preparing my website and even setting Paypal to handle my payment...

Ecommerce Payments Website

asked Jun 19 '11 at 19:49

Spyros P
132 points

As many of you - who do not live in the us - surely know, it's near impossible to find an online merchant account/payment gateway other than paypal standard for non-us based businesses. If there's...

Payments Business Business Services Merchant Account

asked May 30 '11 at 03:38

Sotkra
141 points

As suggested by Nielsen in another thread, here I am asking directly: What merchant accounts/payment gateways are there available for Mexico-based businesses BESIDES paypal website payments...

Payments

asked May 30 '11 at 13:13

Sotkra
141 points

I have a small project that sells legal music online, per transaction is less than a dollar so the traditional payment solutions are not my option because they charge too much fee. I found out that...

Payments Shopping Cart Micro Payment

asked May 22 '11 at 23:28

Raymond Ho
126 points

I may have the chance to be the first employee of a startup going to the YC summer 2011 program. The thing is I think they are planning to cover my expenses but not to actually pay me or offer...

Equity Payments Employees

asked May 16 '11 at 00:23

Andy Boot
228 points

If after doing the necessary credit checks, after loaning someone some money, they don't pay it back after a period (how long would this need to be?) is there a way I can indemnify my business...

Insurance Finance Payments Business

asked May 16 '11 at 07:13

Ryan
11 points

Paypal is the only payment gateway! so, my current system only collects seller's PayPal email addressed and create buttons based on that email address. since its all digital downloads, there will...

Ecommerce Payments

asked May 6 '11 at 16:19

Andy Carlson
28 points

For the past several years we have used Paypal to pay freelancers and outsourcing companies in India. But as of March 1, 2011, it appears that Indian banking laws have changed and we can no longer...

India Payments International

asked May 7 '11 at 11:14

Kenneth Vogt
2,917 points

I'm a new UK contractor, and I've just had my first payment and was wondering how much I should put aside and how I go about actually transferring the cash from my business account to my...

Payments Tax

asked May 7 '11 at 18:47

Martyn
128 points

We mainly use PayPal as our payment processor on our website. Of late we're seeing that PayPal is having issues with corporate credit cards. Moreover, going forward, PayPal won't accept payments...

Ideas Payments

asked Apr 21 '11 at 05:17

Ankur Jain
566 points

Does anyone have any experience when it comes to jumping directly into your own credit card processor and merchant account with an online startup? I know some merchant accounts require you are...

Ecommerce Payments Credit Cards Merchant Account

asked Apr 24 '11 at 09:44

Sk24iam
344 points

Does anyone knows about a company/service/way that allows to send payments to credit/debit cards? I want my website be able sending to worldwide affiliates their commissions that way.

Payments Credit Cards

asked Apr 14 '11 at 07:56

Quantme
113 points

I currently run a poker startup which sells datamined statistics. I've been trying to accept payments from a merchant called moneybookers as they are very popular in the poker community. They don't...

Payments

asked Mar 31 '11 at 04:47

Nextgenneo
327 points

How (what services use) to better organize the protection, payments, sending license keys for shareware Air applications?

Software Payments Licensing

asked Apr 7 '11 at 05:42

Astraport
186 points