Comments on: Authorize.net Adds Recurring Billing API http://particletree.com/notebook/authorizenet-adds-recurring-billing-api/ Everyone needs a hug. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:54:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Carey Hiles http://particletree.com/notebook/authorizenet-adds-recurring-billing-api/#comment-21396 Carey Hiles Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:11:02 +0000 http://particletree.com/notebook/authorizenet-adds-recurring-billing-api/#comment-21396 <p>It may also be worth noting that Authorize.net's ARB doesn't take a currency, so non-US payments are impossible.</p> <p>I shall investigate your above recommendations</p> It may also be worth noting that Authorize.net’s ARB doesn’t take a currency, so non-US payments are impossible.

I shall investigate your above recommendations

]]> By: Chris Campbell http://particletree.com/notebook/authorizenet-adds-recurring-billing-api/#comment-20438 Chris Campbell Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:29:22 +0000 http://particletree.com/notebook/authorizenet-adds-recurring-billing-api/#comment-20438 <p>Thanks for adding that, Danny. We've never had problems with money being held in a 'holding pool', but I definitely don't like the sound of not being in control of the data. I have spoken with paysimple and they said that I can take the data and leave at anytime, so that's a pretty big plus for them.</p> Thanks for adding that, Danny. We’ve never had problems with money being held in a ‘holding pool’, but I definitely don’t like the sound of not being in control of the data. I have spoken with paysimple and they said that I can take the data and leave at anytime, so that’s a pretty big plus for them.

]]> By: Danny http://particletree.com/notebook/authorizenet-adds-recurring-billing-api/#comment-20436 Danny Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:15:43 +0000 http://particletree.com/notebook/authorizenet-adds-recurring-billing-api/#comment-20436 <p>We were using Authorize.net's ARB system <em>before</em> they released this super-helpful functionality for our subscription business, and I have to say it wasn't pretty. More troubling was that they didn't have any way for us to migrate our customer data to a new solution when the time came. This is the main drawback of storing your customer information directly on these services; your customers are held hostage by the billing storage provider. Moreover, Authorize.net's package with the merchant account had strange practices where some of our funds wouldn't be paid out to us as they held it in a "holding pool" of some sort. Overall, we were not happy with them and wouldn't recommend going down their ARB route.</p> <p>We've since moved on to TrustCommerce and their programmable interface has made things so much smoother for us.</p> We were using Authorize.net’s ARB system before they released this super-helpful functionality for our subscription business, and I have to say it wasn’t pretty. More troubling was that they didn’t have any way for us to migrate our customer data to a new solution when the time came. This is the main drawback of storing your customer information directly on these services; your customers are held hostage by the billing storage provider. Moreover, Authorize.net’s package with the merchant account had strange practices where some of our funds wouldn’t be paid out to us as they held it in a “holding pool” of some sort. Overall, we were not happy with them and wouldn’t recommend going down their ARB route.

We’ve since moved on to TrustCommerce and their programmable interface has made things so much smoother for us.

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