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19774: RE: [MUD-Dev] [BIZ] Billing systems

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From: Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:07:55 +0100
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Hook [mailto:bwh@wksoftware.com]
 
>> Just out of curiosity, why isn't paypal more generally supported?
 
> For one time charges I suppose it's okay, but the issue of
> subscriber billing is a bit hairier.  I don't think PayPal
> supports recurring payments.  What you don't want to do is sift
> through a thousand PayPal transaction statements every month and
> manually update player records.  *shudder*

It might be worth approaching them, if the article in this months
Wired is anything to go by. They are trying to find ways to expand
their business so that they aren't completely dependent on ebay, so
you might find they'd be willing to do the hard work for you if you
are handing them a new market.

Just a thought,

Dan
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