Questions regarding receiving money from customers or sending money to vendors.
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Paying App developers in equity?
I am starting a software company. We will start with one service in particular, but will expand from there. My question is, is it reasonable to pay developers in equity alone? Also, seperate question, ...
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Is charging 20% - 30% a standard, accepted practice for acting as a service provider?
I am in the early stages of planning an online business which will bring together those who want X, and those who can provide X.
Looking at Apple's App store model and Amazon's Publisher model, they ...
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Subscription billing for a B2B SaaS
I understand I can either go with a combination of:
Payment Gateway (ex: Authorize.net)
and
Subscription management service (Spreedly, Cheddargettar)
or go with one solution that provides both these ...
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What is the best pricing model for a service based on requests?
I have a product for monitoring specific areas of content within webpages and notifying the customer when changes occur to this content and what they are. (E.g. monitor the latest stories on a news ...
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I provide purchasing services for foreign companies. How to solve the problem of trust?
I am a purchasing agent for foreign companies. My clients find me on the Internet. I provide services so my clients pay me my service charge. They don't personally know me before they contact me. I ...
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How do Royalty payments work?
I have been asked by another company to build them some software to operate some machinery.
The company sells this machinery to their own customers and wants to provide the software I write along ...
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How should I accept payments from clients for my online business?
I will be offering services virtually through my online business. What options are there for accepting payment electronically? There is the obvious one PayPal, but are there any others worth looking ...
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How to pay commissions internationally?
I am looking for a way to handle payouts to authors living both in and outside of the USA. I heard about Paypal Mass payments but are there any other better alternatives to pay commissions ...
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How do the deals websites operate in terms of profit & find partners?
For starting a deals website, I would like to start by knowing how the deals websites operate( Example: Groupon.com ) in terms of profits. Let me put it in a clear way.
I noticed this. I went to the ...
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How do I handle large payments (over $15,000)?
As a side-project to my IT Consultancy business, I have developed a software product which I intend to sell. The URL for the new product is at http://www.scichart.com
I am partnering with FastSpring ...
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eCommerce Bootcamp ( focused on eBay and PayPal )
Have a client that's asked me if I'd be able to clear tens of thousands of dollars of existing inventory via eBay. While it seems like a stretch, figured I'd look into it for them just to give them ...
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Looking for a UK online payment solution that only takes a percentage or a flat fee [closed]
I'm currently looking for an online payment solution for a business website I'm working on and it turns out it's a bit more complex than I'd first though.
I'd like to run at a very small download fee ...
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What do you do about known payment fraud?
As someone that's sold services and webapp subscriptions online for about 8 years now, I've seen a lot of payment fraud, mostly in the form of signing up with stolen credit card numbers. I've managed ...
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Contracting for the first time, constructing a contract
An old employer of mine has approached me to do some freelance work to which I have said I am interested. I explained that since leaving I have never done any freelance work so I would have to set up ...
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How to accept payments from companies in India?
Our business accepts payments via credit cards (Google Checkout + PayPal) and also via PayPal directly. We've had several requests from companies in India, stating that they cannot pay with a credit ...
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Can I use a business name to accept Paypal donations (for free software) before legally forming a business?
I would like to give away some software I have developed for free on a website as donationware, but rather than see my name when people donate, I would like them to see something more official like ...
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Who pays the bank's transfer fee when receiving payment
If I sell a product for, say, £1000, and a buyer in another country pays me via a bank transfer, should I expect them to pay the bank charges? Is it something that should be explicit on the invoice - ...
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Low price merchant friendly payment gateway [closed]
Without getting into too much detail, we need to lot of transfer of large amounts upto $1000. However that's not our revenue.
We need a payment gateway which offers low fees ACH transfers, preferable ...
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Cross-platform Payment System in South Korea
I am planning to have an online business targeting South Korea.
It seems that most Korean payment gateways only support Internet Explorer and Windows. It is severely limited for other browser and ...
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Business owner, how does he/she get paid?
Business owner, how does he/she get paid?
Withdrawals vs Salary (Guaranteed payments)
I've been thinking of registering a Ltd company (UK) as I'm a freelancer; and want limited liability. Also to ...
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Suggest best way to process payments?
We are from NJ. Our start up consists of 2 people. Previously, all of our clients were through our contacts, so we just accepted cheques for payment and deposited them in our Bank of America small ...
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Paypal automated pay/receive and success notice with business account? (what if I don't have a business?)
I would like to know if is possible to create a system that pay/receive automatically based on what is happening in the site.
I would like to know after a payment that it has succeeded or not in order ...
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Bookkeeping practices for a website using electronic payments (e.g. Paypal)
I am in the process of setting up an accounting "system" (well set of procedures etc). For most businesses, the books of original entry include:
Sales Day Book
Sales Return Day Book
As I ...
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Main reasons why people opt for Self hosted vs 3rd party payment processing?
We have been using PayPal and FastSpring hosted payment processing for a long time now without any issues.
Just wondering, why do small businesses opt for self hosted payment processing given that ...
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Automated recurring billing systems Paypal vs others
We have today paypal integration, which was very simple, one time purchase.
Now we want to into recurring payment model and charge users on monthly or yearly basis. We would also allow users to buy ...
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Receive one-time payments without credit card or paypal
My company takes payments via credit card and Paypal, but occasionally we have international customers who do not have a credit card (or debit card with Visa or Mastercard logo) and do not have a ...
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Are merchant accounts necessary?
Are merchant accounts necessary? Can some other bank services be used when charging clients while still being professional?
I'm thinking of using wire transfers or maybe PayPal. Can PayPal or Google ...
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Overview of online payment?
I know Stack Exchange is meant to answer precise questions instead of discussing a subject, so would like to know where to find a good forum to discuss issues related to online payments (eg. how to ...
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E-commerce and electronic payment laws. Where can I read them?
As the title says I need to read e-commerce and e-payment related laws of the following countries: Canada, USA, European Union, Philipinnes, South Korea, UK, China.
Links are appreciated?
My google ...
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Is a good strategy to start with a free service and then charge for the service?
I'm building a startup of P2P model that will work with a payment gateway. But I have a problem with that, in my country the formalities to have a payment gateway are very slow (take about two ...
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Getting Paid in Equity - what is the simplest way to structure payment for consulting work in equity?
I'm opening a small start-up consulting business and would prefer to be paid in equity. It's unusual, I know, but it's my preference.
What is the simplest way to structure an equity-pay transaction ...
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Developing a social payment system
I have seen sites like klout.com used in measuring social influence of people. I want to know if it's possible to develop a payment system where people pay using their social influence. For example we ...
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What is the best way to facilitate payouts to users bank accounts?
What is the best way to facilitate payouts to user bank accounts?
After checking with my local bank wire-transfers are $25 each and can't be triggered programmatically. Where else should I explore ...
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Is it alright to ask for payment for a website when it is done, but before client supplies text/images
We make websites and have frequently been in a situation where a site is finished, but the development is dragged on for another month because the client can't find the time to provide the site text ...
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How do I respond to client asking for retainer back?
After deciding on a list of requirements with a client and agreeing on a price, the client sent me 50% of the total before work was started, and we agreed the remaining was to be paid at delivery.
I ...
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What are the ways to sell desktop applications
I'm figuring the ways to sell software online. I want a service that is easy to use. PayPal is good, but I'm not sure if most of the people have PayPal. Also Fortumo is a good service, it works in ...
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Merchant account for receiving and sending money
I am setting up an application where an user has the capability to send and receive money (somewhat similar to paypal).
I have been researching online for the last few weeks and have only come across ...
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Payment solutions for the UK [closed]
I'm struggling to find a payment solution for my UK based startup. I don't intend to sell internationally for a considerable amount of time. I do have a turnover and can probably satisfy merchant ...
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Are there any eligibility criteria for accepting paypal donations?
I'm an individual from Singapore currently offering free access to a web application and I'd like to accept donations to support it.
Are there any eligibility criteria to accept PayPal donations?
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Paying contractor via ACH bank transfer
I have a single member LLC.
When paying a contractor (about 10k) is it okay to just do a ACH bank transfer or should I send them a check.
Related, when I pay myself, it is okay to do an ACH bank ...
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SaaS ERP paying options
What do you think of the following business model for SaaS ERP:
GIVE FREE ACCESS FOR 2 users (or so) per organization and charge for additional users.
Thanks
Martin
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How to handle check payments to workers?
On my site, users earn virtual currency, which can be converted to cash payment. Is there a service that can facilitate in sending out cheques, paypal, or wire payments to the users?
I don't want to ...
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List of Online Shop Software closely tied to Paypal [closed]
i want to gather a list of online shop software that is closely tied to paypal. I've seen a piece of software that provides you with a cool interface where you can add your products and then checkout ...
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What is the smoothest solution you've seen for small payments?
We have a site where visitors can pay 99 cents for a service. It would be cool if the user experience were similar to iTunes: the user clicks one button, doesn't have to type in credit card info, ...
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How do sellers get paid online?
If I'm setting up a system where people can sell stuff online. I'm planning on having my own merchant account and setting up my own payment system.
The problem I ran into is how to I send money from ...
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Collection: How to deal with a client who is going to dodge payment in Internet-based business?
I am a business translator and sourcing agent in Hangzhou, China. Recently a British businessman found me on the Internet and inquired about my service. He agreed on my service charge and I worked for ...
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What are some services that allow credit card payments on behalf of another company (i.e. Groupon, LivingSocial, etc)?
My startup operates in a similar fashion to that of the typical daily deal sites - we accept payment from our users, take a cut off the top, and pay out the person\company providing the goods or ...
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Payment systems for sites like ebay
I'm building an item mediator portal, something like ebay where people can sell stuff and other people buy it. What payment gateway or systems out there to use that does this? What I want to do is ...
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How possible is it for someone to send a cheque over post right to my address?
I'm not knowledgeable about business stuffs, legal stuff, and so on.
But I was trying to understand, A) how possible is it for someone from another "developed" country to mail a cheque directly to ...
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Looking to hire good freelancers - looking for original ways for paying them?
I am building a small startup.
We haven't raised any money yet, and we're in the stage where we need the help of some very talented free lancers (mostly graphic designers).
The prices they are asking ...
