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Hi,

Both are good. Share-It was easier at generating license keys, and Paypal required me to do a whole bunch of ASP coding to generate license keys myself. However, their sample code was useful, and worked, and has been working for the last 3 years without any trouble.

For a while, Paypal had multiple servers responding to purchases, and informing my server to send more than one registration e-mail, but they fixed that problem after about 3-4 weeks. I have also seen their service go down once for about half-a-day during the last 3 years.

Otherwise, their credit card processing fees are about half that of Share-It which was a huge savings. I kept my Share-It account open, and refer the 1% of customers who are really passionate about not using Paypal. Overall, my sales were not affected by switching to Paypal.

Good luck

Michel

Another aspect of this is the value of the app you are selling. I find selling small apps is OK with PayPal, but high-value apps are a problem, especially when selling abroad, because the PayPal fee is a very hefty %.

I use XE to check exchange rates and they offer a money transfer service:

http://www.xe.com/fx/?utm_source=intern ... ney_HomeTL

Anybody actually used them?

I have used PayPal for my software sales for quite a few years. So far, never had a problem though I think a lot may depend on type of customer for the product.

It was simple to implement and the ability to easily do ad-hoc e-mail invoices is handy for unusal transactions. Dealing with currencies saves a lot of hassle.

I've been using PayPal for maybe 6 years, both for Ebay and a small software studio. Their security protocols are probably the best out there, and the new API is awesome, but they lack in some departments both for sellers and buyers, and these aren't new problems.

For sellers in 2010:

• Delayed charge-back protection. This means something if you move a lot of money with the account.
• Fees that can easily tank small businesses on current-day profit margins, especially with transfers.
• Major latency when dealing with bank exchanges, 3+ days avg just on American bank transfers, way more on other regions and wires.
• In the case of Ebay there is major hostility when you try to get out of exchanges with ebay snipers by refund, who despite self-proclamation DO set out to low-ball bidding frenzies(there is even software to do it with now)..Ebay and PayPal are incorporated, so you'll get an array of nasty legal threats.

For buyers in 2010:

• PayPal and Ebay literally can't detect hacked accounts on their own servers. You'd be surprised at how many hacked AND high-positive-feedback accounts are selling baited items on ebay at any given time in action&buy-it-now mode, and the attackers even do controversial pricing on stuff like dualshock3 controllers to bait. Same goes for accounts used on domains, just not the same frequency. It's trivial for carders to stream money into trash accounts leaving paypal and the banking system to flip the bill, add this to greedy executive costs and you have the reasoning behind exaggerated fees from all parties. PayPal even left out verification on bank account management to help hackers do this stuff in under 10 minutes. Their security experts even made it where you can leverage full account access when you get into one or another on ebay<>paypal
• Support system blows. Their forum doesn't even have staff 99% of the time, it's most likely a small group of ass kissers who give socially awkward answers to everything that don't contribute to the subject matter at all.. Last I checked their were 3 non-employees giving support for PayPal on their forums, and a lot of threads that died waiting for official responses; this was ~3 months ago.

But hey..what else is there to use(that doesn't have even worse security response and fees, and is accepted..can anyone say monopoly)?

Well, Google check-out has become established. When they first introduced the service, they had a lot of teething problems. Perhaps they are better now - they certainly trounce PayPal on price.

IdeasVacuum wrote:Well, Google check-out has become established. When they first introduced the service, they had a lot of teething problems. Perhaps they are better now - they certainly trounce PayPal on price.

I usually go there first, and then go on Google web search to see if I can beat prices. Amazon, Newegg, and some drop-box companies usually have the best prices(if you exclude all the companies who flood Google shopping with fake listings). Ebay is almost exclusively Paypal, there is the option of CC but nobody really uses it because charge backs and scamming.

Paypal almost has the equivalent of vendor lock in my opinion..