So far, there is no "real" competition to paypal for small developer sheds. In fact, I am sooo p about it, that I think I'm going to start a payments service myself! Anyone come and join me?
There is afaik no service, that offers a nice and easy payment integration for small e-commerce websites. Of course you can get all the heavyweight stuff with merchant accounts and so on. But if you're a small garage-shop which wants to accept credit card payments, there is no alternative to paypal (at least in germany).
I think there's no need to mention here how much the payment process of paypal sucks anyways, as it has been discussed here already extensively.
Within my own little company, I've estimated that we loose about 30% of our customers in the last phase of checking out, where people are on behalf of paypals website. As far as i've seen, amazon does a much better job here.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but i think you dont even have to open an account with pasword and stuff to checkout using ur credit card?
Amazon.com operates and accepts payments in EU and Canada. AWS is available in EU. Payments service is available for close to two years. There must be something some other answer than "it just takes time".
I guess kinda like E-junkie but w/ more options. I'm sure there is -- and if not I definitely think there should be.
What's new is that they've made it slightly easier to integrate with an existing site. This is good news, as the full power of FPS is an awesome and frightening thing to behold.
