22nd Oct 2012, 09:24 PM | #1 |
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I am in the process of setting up an automated recurring billing program to handle the payments for hosting of my mobile web business clients. I am looking for any recommendations or advice regarding vendors from anyone who has done this. Any advice or help is appreciated, thanks. |
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23rd Oct 2012, 12:59 AM | #2 |
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If you become a reseller for either Lime or Avid they do have a billing system at the mid level plan.
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23rd Oct 2012, 09:55 AM | #3 |
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If you're looking for a serious recurring payment gateway, look into Beanstream. I use them for credit card processing and billing along side freshbooks. Again, I run a proper business that isn't accepting paypal to my personal bank.. I have a business bank account that this is tied to. |
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23rd Oct 2012, 01:17 PM | #4 |
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I'm looking for anyone who has info regarding authorize.net vs. payflow. Pros and cons of each. There's not too many alternatives... |
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23rd Oct 2012, 01:45 PM | #5 | |
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Telling you, look into beanstream. Many small businesses use them. | |
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23rd Oct 2012, 03:08 PM | #6 | |
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Stripe offers a subscription-based billing option. I'm leaning towards using that for my current project.
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23rd Oct 2012, 03:09 PM | #7 |
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I use paypal, and then have automated billing membership script that handles everything. It is much easier than getting seperate merchant accounts.
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I've been trying to distance myself from paypal recently though, starting to get tired of their crap. | ||
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23rd Oct 2012, 08:45 PM | #10 |
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My vote goes to WHMCS.COM - its extremely versatile, we have two installations that manages our recurring billing for hosting, SMS services, domain renewals, seo and social media services as well for generating quotes, invoices for print and design projects and managing our product licensing! Like I said its very versatile! You can configure it to disable people's accounts and even auto terminate for non payment, you can set it up to add late fees, pro-rata payments, not to mention it works with a crazy number of payment gateways, we currently use it with PayPal, PayPal pro, google checkout and soon 2checkout. It comes with an awesome support desk. Customer invoicing. We have a number of addons that just streamline the whole thing ie mobile integration (admin apps for droid and iPhone), liscense key management and live chat... Have been using it approximately 5years I can't think of anything that comes close to it... Setup maybe a little overwhelming but once you get used to it you will see why it's been one of our best finds/investments. It lets you continue on with running your business whilst handling all your billing and invoicing on auto pilot. Hope that helps Cheers Jay |
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If I am not mistaken it comes free with business hosting plans at hostgator - we pay whmcs direct as I prefer dealing their support and also hope our payments help the continued development |
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23rd Oct 2012, 11:52 PM | #13 |
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Freshbooks has worked great for me. It's simply, it integrates nicely with authorize.net and paypal and allows your clients to pay by check.
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24th Oct 2012, 06:19 AM | #14 |
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@Jay - Thanks I'll look into that. Another great invoicing tool that integrates with Paypal is Invoiceable (formerly Invoice Bubble). The best part is it's free! They do have a paid version but I've been using the free version for over a year. |
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When mine was set up I do not think there was a set up fee so it depends on who is setting it up for you. You can do it yourself or your merchant account can do it. I just say this because many people have $60 plus a month in fees from authorize simply because they have all the boxes checked when they set it up for options they do not need. | |
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25th Oct 2012, 11:45 PM | #16 |
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WHMCS should be free on hostgator.
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