Plimus

Sorry to be digging up an old post but I was wondering about Plimus too.

Anyone?

Tommy.

I'd be curious to hear people's thoughts on Plimus vs RegNow vs ShareIt as far as quality and quantity of affiliates

I sell my products on Plimus and they are very, very good when it comes to their features. I'm happy with them. They can beat CB in many things!

If you'll ask about affiliates... well, I guess this is their weak point.

But the affiliate tools are also great.

Be more specific about what you are looking for and I'll try to answer!

Val

Check out Fastspring for digital delivery. As a software developer I hear numerous complaints about Plimus, though none of them too serious.


B.

Yeah, what complains?? I'm curious to hear them.

Val

I've signed up with Plimus days ago. Although I have complaints about them, I think the overall experience with them will be much better than with ShareIt and 2checkout.

Ok, the bad things first:
They do terrible things to your first couple of customers. Than you're 'verified' and the payments go more smoothly. By terrible I mean: they make a robot automatically call the phone number the customer leaves (unannounced!) as a 'verification'. If the customer, for example, buys from work and leaves a home phone - you're screwed, the payment will be probably refunded after days...

It's hard to impossible to get them on the phone. My first support ticket got answered in like 3 days (I had an urgent issue), but the next one: I emailed on SUNDAY and got a detailed response within half an hour. Go figure. Another bad thing: the available documentation is very basic. But I was able to figure everything out without any documentation (not with ShareIt and 2checkout).

What I like about them the most is their flexibility, and configurability. They have good features as well. Everything is just more logical than with other payment processors. They have a good support forum, eventually you get an answer to every question. From numerous reviews I hear they always pay on time (and there are many payment options!). I really hated when other payment processors forced me to make the payment pages exactly like they wanted. With Plimus it's not just about making a template fit your design - you have much more freedom. Here is an example of a payment page with Plimus: Automatic Article Submitter for Elite Article Marketers
They manage your affiliate program, and it's a good system too. (there is a little thing I hate about it: the page for signing up to your affiliate program doesn't work correctly in Internet Explorer, when people click the Submit button in IE nothing happens - confirmed by me, and one of my affilates).

So, that's about what I can remember. I might be switching more of my sites to Plimus.

Awesome review Milan, have you ever tried RegNow to compare? (obviously it seems ShareIt is pretty much unsatisfactory in most of our eyes)

@Dexx, I never used RegNow. I've had a very superficial look, and the interface and features were strikingly similar to ShareIt. They must've seen each other as top competitors in the past and look to each other.
I'm not saying ShareIt are bad, they are reliable, in the industry since 1996. However, if you want to adjust your sales process (or your use an API) it's quite impossible. Some "little" things annoy me. Like, I understand they want to display your name and address at the sales page, they want the sales process to be transparent. But what if you use a pen name, let's say you sell to women and need a female pen name... They have many little rules like that which mess up your sales process.

@Tim, I really need to do something about this!

They allow scumbags like RentACracker to use their services.

So they basically endorse pirating our hard work as digital info publishers.

I wouldn't do business with them.

Jason, you're a good guy. I apologize if you feel I was putting words in your mouth. I wrote how I understood it. I understood you wouldn't do any business with Plimus, just because one bad apple used Plimus.

To get to the point: Okay, you don't care much, but I do care. I care enough to report the issue you raised to Plimus, I got reply from Plimus within minutes that they're ready to cooperate. I tried to get a payment button/form/plimus id from rentacracker and asked you privately if you have any of their links/accounts - I don't have anything so there is no way I can ask any more action from Plimus...

I don't see Plimus endorsing piracy at all. That would also be like shooting your own foot, not to mention it would be illegal.

What is Plimus anyway?

Never heard of them...

Pavon