Bank Deposit... how?

[snootalope]

Hello

hey, I used to design pages way back in the day but never had to create the type that made money transactions..

Anyway, a good friend of mine has asked me to setup a single page site, maybe two page, that will tell the life of an individual and then have an area for a donation to be made. All I know so far is they have setup a bank account for these donations and they'd like to have the web site be able to deposit to it.

Is this a very challenging thing to do for a novice? Anyone know any sites or anything that might detail the how to's of this?

Thanks for any advice as well if you've done this before!

-scott

 

[johnwm]

I would use Paypal. You will need a Paypal account (free) then go to

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-standard-overview-outside

You will find a link to 'Donations' that provides you with the code to cut&paste into your page

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[Stretchwickster]

I know that some sites use PayPal Donations (see

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/donate-intro-outside

for more details).

Tek-Tips itself uses this approach (

http://www.tek-tips.com/supportus.cfm).

Clive

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[snootalope]

yeah.. i like the paypal approach, real simple to throw on the site. Only thing is, every that uses will need a paypal account or need to set one up correct?

 

[Stretchwickster]

If you click the Donate button on the tek-tips page I referenced above, you will notice a line which says:

"Don't have a PayPal account? Click here"

So no, a user doesn't need a PayPal account, although there are advantages to having one.

Clive

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[snootalope]

Is it a stupid idea to use a free service like blogger or something for the site and then put the paypal button there?

Just curious if that's not a good idea..

 

[audiopro]

they have setup a bank account for these donations

Might be worth asking their bank as many banks have their own processing system for accepting secure credit card payments.

Keith

 

[snootalope]

10-4, i'll check on that.

What about putting the paypal button on a blog site? Good idea, bad idea? No big deal at all?

 

[Stretchwickster]

I don't see why it's any different to placing the paypal button on any other site/page.

Clive

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[GUJUm0deL]

Consider the Google Checkout (

http://checkout.google.com/buyer/tour.html)

I am no fan of PayPal. The customer reps are so hard to communicate with. PayPal is known to freeze accounts for no reason and unfreezing is rarely ever done.

Take a look at

http://paypalsucks.com/

for past users who got burned. One of my clients got burned by PayPal bigtime.

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[Kjonnnn]

I've never had a problem with paypal. Use it on my site. It IS the most inexpensive one out there too.

You'll just have to use some wisdom, you'll find a myriad of thatsitesucks.com out there.

 

[johnwm]

I've used PayPal on several of my clients sites, as well as on my own, and never had any problems. The only issues that I am personally aware of were from a scam that one of my clients got ripped off by. They got their money back from PayPal without any problem.

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[GUJUm0deL]

There are ALWAYS pros/cons, good reviews/bad reviews, etc in anything. The person that created paypalsucks.com and the people that post there are all real customers that got screwed with PayPal one time or another. Their situations are not something to be taken lightly when making a decision on how to effectively perform money transactions.

Many users in this thread boasted about PayPal. It's only fair the OP also know about the negative aspects about PayPal. Besides there is no gurantee that since Kjonnnn and johnwm had great experiences from PayPal that OP would have the same.



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[Wullie]

The person that created paypalsucks.com and the people that post there are all real customers that got screwed with PayPal one time or another. Their situations are not something to be taken lightly when making a decision on how to effectively perform money transactions.

And how many people on that site were doing something against Paypal's TOS? I'll guarantee a large number of people on that site are under 18, which means they cannot legally hold a Paypal account. If they break the TOS, they need to deal with the consequences.

You cannot possibly say that Paypal are freezing their accounts for absolutely no reason unless you have first hand experience of it, even your client you mentioned could have done something against their TOS without your knowledge. What I personally see is people complaining about their accounts being frozen, yet I never see lawsuits because of it. (Ever wondered why?)

As for unfreezing rarely being done, have you considered that you just don't know about it? People jump onto sites to complain when PayPal freeze their account, do you honestly think they jump just as quickly to tell everyone it got sorted? People will always post more when they are complaining, yet they will rarely post to say the problems were solved. (As we see all the time on TT, problem posted then the OP never replies)

We take a lot of Paypal transactions per day and have never had a problem with it. I've phoned their customer service multiple times and they have always been helpful and answered any questions I have had. Take any large company that deals with millions of customers and e-mail will be slow/canned responses. (Google's support is a great example of this, with 10 e-mails back and forth until they actually answer the question I asked)

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[GUJUm0deL]

Wullie, I don't know what the posters at paypalsucks.com did and I also don't know if my client did anything against the TOS...but that's besides the point.

It's unfair to boast a (popular) service without also acknowleding certain pitfalls. It's also unfair to assume that these ppl that were wronged by PayPal did something against PayPal's TOS. (It's as if your implying that every single person wronged by payPal did something wrong.) Like me, you also don't know what really happened.

Once again, I felt it was in snootalope's best interest to know about this.

You may have a millon successful paypal transactions without one single problem, does that mean everyone who uses Paypal will have the same thing happen?

As far as the lawsuit is concerned, read the FAQs on that they mention this.

http://paypalsucks.com/faqs.shtml

There was a class action lawsuit which was setteled. NOTE: I did NOT spend all my time reading the specifics about that lawsuit, there are other links to faqs and pdf files and whatnot. If someone is really inclined, they can read everything and let us know what the lawsuit was really about

Again, my mentioning paypalsucks.com is ONLY meant to make snootalope aware of the pitfalls of PayPal. Nothing more.



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[snootalope]

Hey, thanks for recomendations as well as the heads up.. I've been a customer of paypal for a long time now and luckily I've never had an issue with them.

Thanks again... -snooter

 

[johnwm]

Thanks for the link to paypalsucks. The only worry about it is that it appears to be just a front for a (rather expensive) competing product (

http://www.995merchantaccounts.com/)

which is being operated by an independent agent. I find it slightly worrying that a financial institution would allow these tactics, but I guess these things are done differently over there.

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[Kjonnnn]

Maybe the poster should try Verisign. They will take MUCH more of your donations though.

Im sure there are those who hate verisign too.

But in 3 years, never had a problem transferring funds from Paypal to our "real" bank account.

To each his own. Good luck.

http://www.verisign.com/online-payment-processing/index.html