Re: [tlug] [OT] Payment gateways in Japan.

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 12/20/2010 10:28 PM, Paul McMahon wrote:
> On 20 December 2010 17:20, Edward Middleton
> <edward.middleton@example.com>  wrote:
> > Has anyone had any experience with using any of these payment gateways
> > for payment processing?  How easy are they to integrate with? Are there
> > other payment gateways you would recommend?
>
> We've integrated with PayPal for Doorkeeper.  Our experience hasn't
> been so pleasant from a technical standpoint, but Japanese seem to be
> willing to pay by paypal (at least those with a technical background).

Would this be “PayPal Website Payments Standard” (PPWPS).

> What is the target for your service?  Individuals or businesses?
> Japan or abroad?  Do you need stuff like subscription billing, or are
> you just looking for one time purchases?

We need payments from and to individuals, at a minimum we need support 
for Japanese credit cards, paypal and eventually bank payments.  One 
time payments is all we need at the moment.

> Most of the nice payment solutions that we've come across require a US
> bank account.  We've toyed with the idea of having a US subsidiary to
> collect payment, but haven't investigated it seriously.

Thats not something we can do at the moment.

> One other payment gateway we know of is ZeroWeb, though we haven't
> investigated them at all:
> http://www.zeroweb.co.jp/

They seem to have some interesting services but I couldn't find anything 
about PCI compliance.  Maybe I am just missing it.

Edward