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fastspringon Ask HN: Payment Gateways?

We'll update the FAQ. If you'd like to be considered for the beta, please email support at fastspring.com and mention you're interested. Thanks for your interest.

fastspringon Ask HN: Payment Gateways?

FastSpring's subscription offering (in beta) includes a merchant account, the gateway, etc. Finally, a one-stop shop for SaaS e-commerce. No need to piece the puzzle together on your own anymore.

fastspringon Ask HN: Accepting Online payment in India?

FastSpring is happy to work with firms based in any country the US can do business with, including of course India.

fastspringon Ask HN: How can startups accept payments from users who don't have credit cards?

Paypal?

fastspringon How should I spend $3000/month on marketing?

Google Adwords. And try a small ad in a very targeted publication.

fastspringon Ask HN: Payment processing in New Zealand

FastSpring has everything covered for you there but the recurring, which we'll have shortly. Hang in there, all of your needs will soon be met, and then some.

fastspringon Ask HN: Can you reccommend a good online card processing service for the UK?

Feel free to check out FastSpring

fastspringon Ask HN: How do I sell a PDF document?

Sure, take a look at FastSpring.com FastSpring hosts your (PDF or other type) files at no extra cost as part of the payment processing, merchandising and fulfillment e-commerce service. Amazon S3 is the technology employed for file hosting by FastSpring.

fastspringon Ask HN: Multilingual E-commerce Shopping Cart Recommendation

FastSpring supports multi-language and multi-currency in order pages and includes the gateway and merchant account as part of the service.

fastspringon Ask HN: Tips to improve payment page?

Take a look at this sample store which exists to demonstrate how you can optimize order pages in order to lead to the optimal revenue per order and site conversion: http://www.fastspring.com/slideshows/orderflow.php

I hope this helps you.

fastspringon Ask HN: how do you process payments?

Be sure to evaluate FastSpring.com as well.

Before you go with PayPal, you may want to read up on some of the issues people have been having with PayPal: http://www.fastspring.com/blog/2008/...nt-processing/

Also, this post explains the difference in a full service e-commerce solution and a basic payment service like PayPal and the others: http://www.fastspring.com/blog/2009/...ng-e-commerce/

Keep in mind that one of the ways customers can pay when using a full service solution is via PayPal, but customers have numerous alternative payment methods available as well. Some vendors won't need the features of a full service solution, while for others it makes a huge difference in their bottom line.

- Dan