Re: FN-FORUM Worldpay

date posted 13th July 2001 16:05

At 15:32 13/07/2001 +0100, Willie wrote:
>Somehow I can't justify their £ 295.00 charge compared with WorldPay's £
>145.00 + £ 50.00 set-up.

I can understand that, but I took the long term view. Over a period of
time, Secure Trading should work out cheaper. I have also heard bad things
about Worldpay. A friend of mine closed his online business because
visitors were entering made-up credit numbers. Worldpay was then debiting
these numbers and expecting my friend to pay!

>They are also NOT able to act as a bureau, which puts WorldPay back in
>winning position.

Yes, but they take a huge percentage for acting as a bureau.

>They also slagged WorldPay quite a bit, which I though was maybe a little
>unprofessional on their side.

Maybe, but to be honest, I'd slag them off too. Oops. Already have.

>The downside of WorldPay is the 4 week payment delay.

And the increased costs over the long-term, plus lack of integration with
be-spoke shopping carts...

Plus I'm not entirely satisfied that the way they transfer data to their
secure server (by meta-refresh?) is entirely reliable.

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