Good Usage Based Payment Service

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Good Usage Based Payment Service

Amazon Flexible Payments Service seems like the perfect service. It is exactly what we're looking for. Unfortunately, since we are not based in US (based in UK instead) it is not available to us.

I was wondering if anyone knew of a similar service which we can use? We would like to sell products in both US Dollars and GB Pounds.

We need to add payment for a usage based service. The payment is similar to Amazon S3 where the customer is charged $0.1 (or similar) for every usage.

We would prefer a prepaid service. The very first time customer signs up they are charged $5 and credited that amount. They use the service until the $5 is used up. The customer should then automatically be charged another $5 to add to prepaid credit. Or something similar would be good.

Any ideas?

PayPal wouldn't work for you?

MusiGenesis 2009-09-15 22:00:55

Well, payment is good, but i want to able to automatically charge customers.So if we do use PayPal (which we will probably use if we don't find a better solution) the customer will have to manually topup their credit once it runs out.An ideal situation would be for them to be automatically charged a small amount once their credit goes below a certain value.

Mooktakim Ahmed 2009-09-16 10:28:35

Oh, forget PayPal then. Their only method of recurring payments is a subscription that charges customers every month (or whenever), and it's only available for customers that have a linked credit card.

MusiGenesis 2009-09-16 10:48:20

I guess we'll have to charge a credit card directly instead.I would have preferred to use some kind of service instead of building our own payment system for this.

Mooktakim Ahmed 2009-09-18 10:19:04

+1 A:

I have been in contact with the FPS team and they tell me a US company is not required. But you must have a US address, bank account and credit card. With a global bank such as HSBC this may well be possible. We are currently attempting to do this, and I will be happy to keep you updated with our progress.

Damien.

dctanner 2010-01-09 18:07:10

Please keep us updated on how you did this and if it was successful.Cheers

Mooktakim Ahmed 2010-01-11 00:02:15

So, after more digging around and many many calls to payment providers in the UK, we've decided to go down the full merchant route. http://www.realex.ie/ is the best we've seen so far.

dctanner 2010-01-24 18:25:33

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