Re: New AKA web site

[owner-killietalk at aka_org (by way of Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>)]

I haven't bought from a "store" using paypal, but have bought seeds this
way from all-too-numerous e-bay auctions.  Generalloy the vendors are
small businesses who try to auction their seeds rather than sell them
outright.  I have had absolutely no problem with PayPal whatsoever.
killietalk at aka_org wrote:
 >
 >
 > Hi all,
 >
 > As many of you know, the AKA will be moving it's web site to a commercial
 > hosting company as soon as I can get it ready to go live. The main reason
 > is that I am no longer at Cornell, where the old server is hosted.
 >
 > In putting the site together, I have to rebuild a lot of stuff, and I'm
 > doing a complete reorganization and redesign intended to make navigation
 > more easy. Amongst the major tasks I have to do is to rebuild the online
 > store to run on the new server (which is Linux, rather than Mac OS). There
 > are shopping cart solutions provided by the hosting company, or I could
 > choose to use the PayPal shopping cart solution. The advantage of the
 > latter is that we don't have to purchase our own secure certificate, as
 > credit card information is provided to PayPal on their secure servers. This
 > would save the AKA a few hundred bucks at startup, as well as a couple of
 > hundred a year in ongoing costs. The other side of the coin is that I
 > believe that I will have more flexibility to customize a store made with
 > one of the provided shopping cart solutions, including the ability to make
 > the store look more unique.
 >
 > I am posting this message because I'd like input regarding the
 > acceptability of using the PayPal system. As many of you know, this system
 > would pass off a request to pay for an AKA item to PayPal. You need to be
 > signed up with them to make the payment. That means if you are not already
 > signed up, you would have to do so at the time of the purchase by giving
 > them your name, email address and credit card information. It is not a lot
 > different from giving us that information, really. PayPal would bill your
 > credit card and transfer the money, less the appropriate transaction fee
 > (which is less than we currently pay, that is, part of the savings) to the
 > AKA account. We would probably maintain our own merchant credit card
 > account, though, for use at the convention.
 >
 > After all that long explanation, my question is simply this: Do any of you
 > have experience using stores that require payment via PayPal. Do you have
 > any discomfort with this system of payment? Do you like it?
 >
 > Any input will be appreciated. It will certainly be easier and quicker to
 > implement a PayPal based system.
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Barry
 >
 > Barry J. Cooper, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Cornell 
University
 > Adjunct faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University
 > Home address: 27505 Riggs Hill Rd., Sweet Home, OR 97386 (bjc3 at cornell_edu)
 >
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