Thread: Offline payment and prepay credit control

Offline payment and prepay credit control

Hi,

I have read another post regarding the possibility of some improvement about offline payment option. It will be a very usefull feature in countries that are not very familiar yet with credit card use within Internet, (they are still some countries old fashion out there)

I dont know how difficult could be this to develop, but also, another nice feature in addition to an offline payment system is a prepay system with credit control of our users in order to be used for future ads by them. In example, ads are 1$/each, the author prepay us by bank transfer $20, then with confirmation we will need to manually activate 20 credits to be used by the author to post up to 20 ads.

Just ideas for improvement,
Regards,
Antonio Martinez

Re: Offline payment and prepay credit control

Paypal handles e-check which could potentially solve the example you mentioned. Just out of curiosity, which countries are still old fashion like this?

Re: Offline payment and prepay credit control

Although I am from the UK, I now live in Spain and can tell you that the debit card and particularly the credit card are not as widely owned or used as most people would think.

Also one of the main problems with paypal is that it changes the language to whichever country you tell it you live in. Many of my prospective customers and therefore my target market, are UK ex pats living in Spain, so when they get to paypal screen, it switches to Spanish and I lose customers who don't understand or are not confident with written Spanish.

An offline type of payment selection would enable people to use bank transfer or cheque or cash paid into my bank account and would therefore generate more business.

I would not consider using a classifieds script without this option.

My thoughts for what they are worth.