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Ask HN: Looking for a UK payment provider - recommendations?
7 points by retube on June 29, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments
Hi All,

I'm going bananas trying to get PayPal working. Finding it very confusing, and has constant issues (passwords not accepted, Internal Server Errors blah blah).

I mean how hard can this be? All I want to do is accept payments on my site. Can anyone recommend a service that will:

- Allow my site to accept credit, debit card payments

- Is third party, so I don't process the transaction myself

- Doesn't require a merchant ID

- Allows me to move funds into a linked UK bank account

- Sends me payment notification over http that I can process and update a customer's status

- allows auto recurring billing

- I don't care if payment form is integrated in an iframe, or is external

Is simple and quick to set up.

Basically i have a handful of subscription packages that I'd like people to be able to sign up for.

Many thanks



Try Paypoint - http://www.paypoint.net/ I haven't used it myself yet, but I certainly will be giving it a go on my next project that requires payment processing!


I'm FastSpring's CEO. We should be able to handle what you need via FastSpring and SaaSy. Feel free to email me directly: dan at fastspring dot com


have you considered http://fastspring.com and its associated subscriptions site http://saasy.com/?

They can pay into uk bank accounts directly and I think they meet most of the other points.

(disclaimer, uk based customer of fastspring, although not using subscriptions side)


We had this issue.

Just using Google Checkout for now.

Does everything you want, except the auto-recurring billing.


Unfortunately the recurring billing is critical as this is a monthly subscription service. Thanks for the feedback though.



Requires a merchant id I believe


Or Paypal apparently.


Just called them. Must have merchant id.


You could use WorldPay - http://www.worldpay.com - they supply the Merchant account for you.


Ok I'll check it out thanks


As well as, WorldPay there's also BrainTree - http://www.braintreepayments.com which are worth looking at as well




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