PayPal X Adaptive Payments API allows a single payment to be divided among up to 6 separate receivers. Also supports currency conversion and PayPal registration through API.
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PayPal Adaptive Payments API
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Amazon.com, General Store of the Web
Monday, September 21st, 2009An article in yesterday’s New York Times talks about how Amazon is increasingly becoming the general store of the Web, one of the few e-tailers to thrive amidst the general recession.
Sometime later this year, if current trends continue, worldwide sales of media products — the books, movies and music that Amazon started with — will [...]
InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Software 2009
Monday, September 14th, 2009InfoWorld compiles its list of best open source software every year about this time. This is this year’s list. For some reason, likely tied to a misguided attempt to generate more page views, InfoWorld presents the list as a series of slides which load extremely slowly. In this post, I’ve pulled out all of the [...]
The Danger of Google’s Market Power
Thursday, September 10th, 2009This article today points up one of the things that you need to be careful about when assessing third-party services to integrate into your web solutions. This particular case concerns Google’s Checkout, an e-commerce offering that is Google’s answer to PayPal, and allows the handling of payment processing.
Google’s ability to handle recurring payments, such as [...]
3 Things, Mobile Phone Usability and m-commerce
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Three Things
At a Java developers’ conference a couple years ago, I remember hearing a keynote where Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, talked about the three things that a person always has when they leave the house: their keys, their wallet and their mobile phone. The point is that mobile phones have become a [...]
Open Source Licensing: What Can I Do With It?
Friday, May 15th, 2009When working with open source software, one of the key things it’s necessary to be aware of are the licensing restrictions. Open source does not mean “no strings attached.” In fact, there are some relatively rigid rules on how open source software can be used and customized, which often have impact on custom web development [...]
How Changing a Button Increased a Site’s Annual Revenues by $300 Million
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009People don’t want to “be in a relationship” with an e-commerce site… they just want their stuff.
http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/
PayPal – product comparison – Reference
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Breakdown of PayPal’s current offerings for supporting e-commerce website development:
Email Payments – for electronic invoicing and receipt of payment
Website Payments Standard – checkout through PayPal
Website Payments Pro – checkout through your website or PayPal
Website Payments Pro – checkout through your website or PayPal
Payflow Pro – checkout through your website or PayPal – need internet merchant [...]
