From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-05-29T13:40:31+09:00
Subject: Re: ADV: Rail Beta Book now available

Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> On May 27, 2005, at 3:16 AM, Nicholas Wieland wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, it seems that your site doesn't support Paypal payment, just
>> Visa/Mastercard. I'd be happy to buy the PDF + Book but actually I use
>> Paypal to buy on the net, I don't have a credit card for
>> Do I have to wait for the book ?
>>
> 
> I'm afraid right now we don't accept Paypal--we try to keep our 
> overheads down, and Visa/MC is already a major headache :)
> 
> Does anyone experience as a Paypal merchant? How are they to work with?

I setup a summer basketball camp web site 
(http://www.basketballminds.com) which allows online registration using 
paypal as the method.

Paypal is very easy to work with. The only thing I found that bug'd me 
was that by default you set your shippings prices on a global scale per 
qty, and not per item, although I believe this may be changed (camp 
registration doesn't ship anything, so I'd have to double check to make 
sure).

In the end all I have paypal's payment doing is sending an email to the 
camp director about the registration. This can just as easily be parsed 
by a simple ruby script if you currently use an automated ordering system.

Paypal charges a % based on the qty of items sold. The more you sell, 
the less they take out. By default I think it's around 2.9% of each 
payment. see 
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-receiving-fees-outside 
  more for information on costs. Outside of that it's entirely free.

Zach