Guide to E-Commerce Solutions

From SeattleTechWiki

E-Commerce solutions includes solutions for selling physical products, memberships and subscriptions. The category includes both hosted services and technology you can integrate in your own site to create a shopping cart, subscription billing solution, etc.

Solutions that have been suggested in the past

• Authorize.NET
• aMember plugin
  • Membership plug-in for Moodle and eFront
• Amazon.com WebStore (http://webstore.amazon.com/Benefits-of-WebStore-by-Amazon/)
• BrainTree (http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/)
  • Used by RescueTime
• Chargify (http://chargify.com/)
  • Recurring billing for Web 2.0 and SaaS companies
• Google Checkout
• Payflow
  • Includes a merchant account in addition to the payment gateway.
  • Kristoph: "The API is straightforward and the support is great (only used it twice though)."
• PayPal Subscriptions (https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=p/xcl/rec/subscr-intro-outside)
• Recurly (http://recurly.com/)
• Social Gold (http://www.socialgold.net)
  • Local Seattle Startup. Provides web and flash based virtual currency, payments, and subscription solutions.
• Spreedly (http://spreedly.com/)
• Shopify (http://www.shopify.com).
• Ubercart
• Vindicia (http://www.vindicia.com/)
  • Used by Groundspeak (http://www.groundspeak.com)
• Volusion
• WP-Wishlist
  • WP-Wishlist adds membership capabilities to a WordPress site
• Yahoo

Reviews and References

You might want to also check out this report http://www.slideshare.net/getelastic/checkout-report-webinar-by-elastic-path-and-netconcepts and this review http://www.untitledstartup.com/2010/02/accepting-payments-on-the-real-time-web/