Paypal alternatives

[Spank]

Does anybody know of any Paypal alternatives to send and receive payment over the internet.
And to turn this more into a discussion, have you had any bad (or maybe even good) experiences with paypal or alternatives.

I've had mainly bad experiences with Paypal, but a couple of months ago an amount of unexplained money came onto my account, wasn't in the logs or anything. Strange but good xD!

[smacklan]

I've been doing business with Paypal for over 5 years with 1000's of transactions and I have no complaints at all. There is, however, 2CO or Moneybookers to look into. I also use Moneybookers.

[SBlueman]

There also is the Amazon Honor System.

What Is the Amazon Honor System?
The Amazon Honor System is a safe and easy way for you to support your favorite Web sites and to buy digital content on the Web. Amazon.com has successfully completed hundreds of millions of online transactions and has more than 25 million customers. Now, the Amazon Honor System lets you use Amazon.com payment technology to make payments to Web sites as small as $1.00.

Web sites use the Amazon Honor System to collect voluntary payments from their users and to accept payment for digital content. In many cases, the Honor System is the only way a Web site can economically collect small payments. In others, the Honor System allows the Web site to raise money for continued operations without resorting to intrusive banner advertisements.

When you visit a participating Web site, you'll see an Amazon Honor System paybox. Click on the paybox's "click to pay" or "click to give" button to view the Web site's PayPage at Amazon.com. There, you'll learn more about the participating Web site and its reasons for collecting money. To make a payment, click Pay now on the PayPageTM, and rely on Amazon.com to complete the transaction quickly and securely.

I had to find an alternative to PayPal after they blacklisted me. I had a site where I was accepting donations and I had images up for a contest a radio show was having for girls with the nicest breasts. They accused me of taking payments for a porn site and I have been blacklisted since.

if you go in the AdminCP >> Paid Subscriptions >> Payment API Manager

you will find a list of all the compatible APIs that are actually freely available for vBulletin... and you can find some extra ones created by Hambil in the last months, distributed here on vb.org.

[iogames]

Originally Posted by SBlueman

There also is the Amazon Honor System.



I had to find an alternative to PayPal after they blacklisted me. I had a site where I was accepting donations and I had images up for a contest a radio show was having for girls with the nicest breasts. They accused me of taking payments for a porn site and I have been blacklisted since.

Originally Posted by nexialys

if you go in the AdminCP >> Paid Subscriptions >> Payment API Manager

you will find a list of all the compatible APIs that are actually freely available for vBulletin... and you can find some extra ones created by Hambil in the last months, distributed here on vb.org.

Thanks!
For this I setup my Paypal & MoneyBookers accounts :P

[DivisionByZero]

get a traditional merchant account. www.bestmerchantrates.com will give you 1% and free authorize.net. i have a mod (not distributed here) that implements the auth.net payment form within vB instead of the crappy default payment form on auth.net

[iogames]

Why don't you release it???

[DivisionByZero]

i dont release my mods here.. i haven't for 3 years.

just use PayQuicker. They are free to setup cheap to use higher monthly limit than any other platform out there that I am aware of and your money is safe it the account because it sits in an FDIC insured bank account that you have full control of. www.payquicker.com:)

The only thing I wonder about is whether you would lose any people donating or buying because they may not trust the other transaction software. Paypal seems to be a company most people know and trust as well as Amazon. I've never had any problems with Paypal although there fees can be a little high compared to merchant accounts. I never read about any other alternatives on internet marketing blogs.