Re: Recurring Payments (Was: [rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?)

2010-11-28 Thread Keith Pitt
The hardest thing traditionally for me is getting clients setup with a merchant account with their bank and getting a payment gateway setup (both of which Chargify/Spreedly still require the user to have) Keith *Keith Pitt* Web: http://www.keithpitt.com Twitter: @keithpitt Skype: keithpitt Phone:

Re: Recurring Payments (Was: [rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?)

2010-11-28 Thread Daryl Manning
Actually, kinda interested in whether anyone has used chargify, spreedly and recurly and can make a call between using them from a cost/pain wise as well. Interested in opinions and pros and cons. I've generally used ActiveMerchant, but if it's not too painful cost and dev wise would love to move t

Re: Recurring Payments (Was: [rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?)

2010-11-28 Thread Ben Hoskings
I'd highly recommend using Chargify instead of manually talking to a gateway. Their gem exposes their JSON API as an ActiveModel resource, so you can literally do, on account creation: subscription = Chargify::Subscription.new(credit_card_info_etc) if !subscription.save raise ActiveR

Re: Recurring Payments (Was: [rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?)

2010-11-28 Thread Carl Woodward
http://spreedly.com/ works really well. Although I like using API. What is everyone doing for PCI DSS? Does everyone know what that is/aware of how it effects them? On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Bodaniel Jeanes wrote: > I can't recommend payment express highly enough. We had a fantastic >

Re: Recurring Payments (Was: [rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?)

2010-11-28 Thread Bodaniel Jeanes
I can't recommend payment express highly enough. We had a fantastic experience with them, and their support is on our time zone (new Zealand, actually) Sent from my iPhone On 29/11/2010, at 10:15 AM, Myles Eftos wrote: > > >> Ok sorry, what I meant ask is what combination of lib and payment gat

Recurring Payments (Was: [rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?)

2010-11-28 Thread Myles Eftos
> Ok sorry, what I meant ask is what combination of lib and payment gateway is > the ducks nuts? > > active merchant / dps? > > Cheers > > Rufus > I don't know about ducks nuts, if you use my or Jason Stirk's forks of Active Merchant, you can use Eway's new Recurring and Managed API. Don't

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?

2010-11-28 Thread Rufus Post
Ok sorry, what I meant ask is what combination of lib and payment gateway is the ducks nuts? active merchant / dps? Cheers Rufus On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Warren Seen wrote: > Generally speaking, recurring payments are handled by the card acquirer, so > the process varies according to

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?

2010-11-28 Thread Warren Seen
Generally speaking, recurring payments are handled by the card acquirer, so the process varies according to your payment gateway provider's API. On 29/11/2010, at 9:19 AM, Rufus Post wrote: > A bit off topic but what's the best way to go about implementing a > re-occurring cc charge in your rai

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?

2010-11-28 Thread Rufus Post
A bit off topic but what's the best way to go about implementing a re-occurring cc charge in your rails app? ie like basecamp et al. Also I have spent allot of time hacking 3rd party advertising and ui enhancements into business catalyst using javascript, not a highlight of my career :( On Mon, N

[rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?

2010-11-28 Thread buzzware
On Nov 28, 8:50 am, Alex Cooper wrote: > The best platform I've ever seen, by a country > mile:http://businesscatalyst.com/Run by Adobe. > > Shopping cart, CMS, customer database, analytics, the works. It costs a > couple of extra dollars per month, but I reckon it's worth every penny. I find

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?

2010-11-27 Thread Alex Cooper
The best platform I've ever seen, by a country mile: http://businesscatalyst.com/ Run by Adobe. Shopping cart, CMS, customer database, analytics, the works. It costs a couple of extra dollars per month, but I reckon it's worth every penny. - alex. On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 17:14, Ivan Vanderbyl w

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?

2010-11-26 Thread Ivan Vanderbyl
Have you tried Big Cartel? http://bigcartel.com/ On 27/11/2010, at 5:10 PM, chris hulbert wrote: > Yeah, we tried shopify with not much luck - we couldn't log in due to > an openid bug, and they took several days to get around to try helping > us, and the support lady kept telling us that there w

[rails-oceania] Re: Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?

2010-11-26 Thread chris hulbert
Yeah, we tried shopify with not much luck - we couldn't log in due to an openid bug, and they took several days to get around to try helping us, and the support lady kept telling us that there was no problem even though i sent the text of the error we were getting, so we've come to the conclusion t