I did this for some mobile software I sell. Used PayPal buttons. Not a bad way to go. once you register with paypal you establish an account, you can then handle the pre and post web processing via your web site. The middle part of the transaction goes via paypal.which accepts any credit card or other type of paypal currency.
Paypal takes like 3 or 5 per cent, not the insane 33 to 70 per cent like some of those mobile sites. Of course you lose the exposure but then you reap a great percentage. If your sale is reversed there is no charge [last time I checked] Paypal also provides some code samples to do this in classic ASP or ASP.NET models [C#/VB] You can tweek these with perhaps a two week effort at worse. You can also link your paypal account to a bank account. Paypal also has no charge for you setting all of this up. [unless you go to a hi volume commercial account with more f(x)] I have been picking up Android and may eventually sell an app or two via this method. Unlocked devices and the freedom to install any app is a great way to promote an OS and applications. Unfortunately telcos/service providers like the "appstore" concept and the locked device methodolgy. They would lock up your laptop and take a cut of all software sales if they could get away with it. Android looks like the best functional mobile OS I have seen. All the others [currently] with the exception of WinCE/Mobile lack the breadth, depth, robustness, process/thread support. I see these two as being great contenders as unlocked open development platforms. you can see a sample of how paypal buttons work from my web site @ http://www.3zwireless.com/software.asp pz ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: "Android Discuss" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 12:03 PM Subject: [android-discuss] Alternative way of dealing with 10% payment declined messages ... ... so Google don't look like they are going to allow charging in local currency soon, so meanwhile rather than lose 10% payment declined because I charge in £'s, not $'s, I am thinking of something like this ... Send automatic message to payment declined users indicating they can buy the apk using PayPal log in. This apl will be downloaded from my website and will send them an apk and an authorisation code which they need to activate the app. This auth code could be linked to a phone or an e-mail address. Has anyone built / seen anything like this? Seems a lot of trouble, so I can't decide if its worth building this or not ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
