Hi,
since you already added PayPal support, what about adding Moneybookers (soon being Skrill) as well. Moneybookers supports an almost identical feature like PayPal's preapproved payment, but they call it Pay-on-demand instead.
Why support Moneybookers as an additional gateway?
- It's as simple to get an account as with PayPal
- Far better reputation as a payment gateway for businesses, PayPal is know to freeze accounts now and then when they "think" something dodgy is going on
- Other than PayPal they support a lot of local payment
options like:
- Cheque (yes people actually do that)
- Online Bank Transfer
- Sofortüberweisung
- Maestro
- etc.
A list of all payment options can be found here (listed below Upload Funds): https://www.moneybookers.com/app/help.pl?s=fees
As mentioned before the feature necessary is called:
Pay-on-demand
Basically the process is the same as with PayPal from a user perspective:
- User chooses moneybookers as payment method on Hosted Payment Form
- Customer gets redirected to Moneybookers gateway (redirection includes merchant id, purpose, amounts etc.)
- Customer authorizes Merchant for Pay-on -demand
- Moneybookers sends IPN message to the url specified in the redirect request (this should be a Cheddargetter server). This notification contains the necessary information to execute payments in the future without further confirmation from the customer
- Customer gets redirected to the Url specified in the redirect request (Hosted Payment Forms or actual website of merchant etc.)
The documentation for creating a relationship between merchant
and customer is described in Section 3.5 "Pay-on-demand":
http://www.moneybookers.com/merchant/en/moneybookers_gateway_manual...
The documentation to actually issue a charge based on the
previously gained authorization from the customer is described in
Section 5 "Pay-on-demand Interface":
http://www.moneybookers.com/merchant/en/automated_payments_interfac...
I hope you find this suggestion helpful, I really think many merchants could benefit from Moneybookers as additional gateway provider .

#1 Posted by adam on 03 Nov, 2011 02:18 PM
Hi Nikolas,
We are currently looking into Moneybookers as an option, and will consider implementing it in the future.
Thanks,
Adam
adam closed this discussion on 03 Nov, 2011 02:18 PM.