Problems with Paypal

[Pucker]

Hey so when I try to donate, I keep getting this error no matter which payment method I choose from Paypal.

While we're on the topic, Paypal kind of sucks and everyone knows this. I would recommend something like stripe.com to process payments.

It's really easy to implement and you won't have to deal with Paypal!

[darkgod]

I'll see to implement other methods yeah.
However I wont remove paypal, sucky or not, liked or not, it's massively the most known one

[Pucker]

Thanks that would be awesome!

I just want to give you my money

[random417]

Yeah, I don't paypal. As soon as you get something else set up, I'll give you my money as well.

[Pucker]

Also, I'm not sure if stripe.com works in Europe yet, but here's a similar one that does work in Europe: http://www.paymill.com

[aardvark]

I haven't checked lately, but the last time I looked both Amazon Payments and Google Checkout had the same fees, etc. as PayPal. The Humble Bundles have supported all three of those options for as long as I've been aware of them.

[Pucker]

From a UX (user experience) point of view, payment portals with passthru are kind of clunky, seeing as how you jump from your site's look and feel to google's look and feel, to back to your site's look and feel. It's just kind of weird and doesn't really foster an image of professionalism.

These kinds of web apps like stripe and paymill are the way to go, you can completely integrate them into your site's UX/UI and give the user a seamless and professional-looking user experience. They are dirt easy to implement too, it's basically a single API call to make a payment and they don't need a google account or whatever:

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curl https://api.paymill.de/v2/transactions \
  -u ad091cc9005eea24f0d4dce2b3fbf8cc: \
  -d "amount=4200" \
  -d "currency=EUR" \
  -d "token=098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6" \
  -d "description=Test Transaction"

You're also not holding any of the user's financial information (it goes to the web app instead), so you don't need to jump through the annoying hoops of staying in line with regulations regarding online payments.