Hi all, I intend to open a website with a subscription service soon. This service will be a "pay as you go", on a monthly basis. However, I do not want billing information linked to the usernames on this service. I would prefer for each user to be anonymous - or at least, as anonymous as possible. Can anyone recommend to me a payment processor who will do the following: Take all major types of credit card, and if possible, also egold and paypal Alert us as to which usernames have paid, without compromising their anonymity. Thanks for looking, =] ~Diarmaid
Authnet can do this as subscriptions are linked to a subscription ID and not a name or anything else.
Hi stymiee, Do you mean authorize.net? I'm looking at that site now, it seems to be quite useful, thanks! If anyone else has any other recommendations, I'll be glad to hear them - the more choice I have, the better =] ~Diarmaid
I'm a little confused by this, are you trying to hide customer personal information from yourself? I might be able to help you with a solution, check out: http://www.ecsuite.com/subscription.php We do automatic monthly recurring billing, as well as user management for subscription services, whether you want randomly generated usernames and passwords or for customers to create them themselves. As long as you don't request personal information on your server and just let them enter it into the billing form, their info will remain private. We accept every major credit card as well as ACH billing. You can setup a variety of event driven email notifications for yourself and your customers, including having one sent to you whenever there is a new signup.
Hi RedXer, Yes, I want to keep customer personal information from myself. I've been in touch with someone in EC Suite previously, there were some problems that leads me to look for another provider. This was concerning visa payments. Thanks for letting me know about it anyway =] ~Diarmaid
Ahh yah I see who you spoke too Too bad about the Visa issue, looks like we would be a good fit for what your trying to do. Hmmm if you can't use us try looking up Plimus, I'm not sure they support recurring billing but if they do they would probably work as well.
yes, plimus supports recurring billing. but there's no such thing as "anonymous". they accept credit cards and paypal. but they will call your customers for verification to avoid chargebacks. there is no anonymous solution as companies have to deal with chargebacks. if your customers want to pay anonymously they should use giftcards (instantly issued non-reloadable prepaid credit cards, that doesn't come with a name on it)
I don't intend for the user to be entirely anonymous, I know this is practically impossible - I just mean as anonymous as possible, and certainly keeping information from my company. The nature of my business will require as much anonimity as possible, it's up to the subscriber to see how far they choose to take it =] Authorize.net seems promising. ~Diarmaid
How should a user stay anonymous using their CC? This is not possible because they have to give their CC-details and so they are in no way anonymous anymore. So if you want to give your customers the option to stay anonymous their are just ecurrencies like E-gold, Liberty Reserse, Webmoney or similar. Another option for example is using Paysafecards. These can be bought on-and offline. But with this you won´t be able to charge them monthly recurring.
I also intend to use WU for accepting payments, if the users so wish. However, as I have stated - I only need to keep the username and billing data seperate, so as that the usernames cannot be linked to real names.
But to avoid fraud you have to know which user used which CC-details. Otherwise everyone can sign up with a stolen CC and you wouldn´t know which usernames belongs to this info About WU: if you want to offer something anonymous then WU is the "worst" you can go for because therefor you have to provide ID when sending money
I believed you only needed ID to collect money? I was certainly never asked for ID when sending money via WU before. The stolen CC is a problem, however, it is a risk we must take =]