Comments on: Google Shuts Down Translation API, PayPal Restricts Masspay

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:32:27 +0000

Wish I would’ve seen this blog before I bought SF Platform! We’re now stuck in the water until a solution comes along, having spent $$ developing this Agriya code and jumping through PayPal hoops.

PayPal told me four days ago that MassPay could be approved along with Website Payments pro approval which is $30 per month. Once, we submitted our app, PayPal compliance thought that SF Platform was a way for use to collect money on behalf of charities, which it’s not.

After that was cleared up, compliance again wanted complete details, with flow chart, and how each API call is made, and where it comes from. We were denied our application after submitting what they requested.

Yes, customers will always use PayPal, but for merchants the company is very capricious and under some circumstances they will freeze funds like that..By implementing changes without letting their merchants know, they create a very uncertain atmosphere, where certainty is needed.

A viable alternative, at least for SF Platform and the crowdfunding model is Amazon FPS, using marketplace and agregated payments.

Amazon holds the CC pre-authorization for 90+ days I believe. No Mass pay returns needed. The project doesn’t fund, the pre-authorization falls off. I also believe thats why it’s the choice of established, successful crowd funding sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.

Through tech support, we’ve asked Agriya sales to contact us with a quote to develop this as a payment system a couple times but they have not responded. Why?

Shouldn’t be too hard to integrate fairly cheaply and next step will be to put out a call to developers on elance and get some solutions.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:12:24 +0000

I trusted paypal website information and developed API integration using MassPay – without any advance notice the ability to use MassPay is disabled. Not only does this interrupt services it impacts timelines and budgets by having to rebuild integration.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:54:13 +0000

I’m sure PayPal mass payment will be back, maybe in other way… I know from quite a long time from quidsin. But, like always ppl overreact…

Of course ppl still want to use PayPal lol

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:40:16 +0000

@Saniya: Unfortunately I don’t think any of those solutions have the masspay option and it would also mean the site users need to have an account with these providers. People still want to use PayPal.

By: Saniya

Saniya — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:04:25 +0000

Hey Peter integrate with alertpay.com, or moneybookers.com, or authorize.net or 2checkout or neteller

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:13:32 +0000

Agriya isn’t a credit card processing company nor do we have any experience in that area, it would require setting up of a whole new business unit so it’s not a route we want to go down at the moment. We’re going to focus on our core strengths of web development for now and hope that other payment companies can pick up the batten that PayPal has dropped.

By: Krushna

Krushna — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:49:00 +0000

So because of paypal problems let me give u an idea, why not agriya develop their own payment system in their products which does not depend on any 3rd party payment processor or integrate with payment gateways like plimus, neteller, authorize.net and there are many that can be used instead of paypal. But i recommend if you do your custom payment gateway will be the best because no script developers in the world do this when they sell their software