Selling games - who does your payments?

Let me a list a few possibilities of common used payment proccessor:

- PayPal +-3.5% royalty + $0.35 No setup fee
- ShareIt +-5% royalty + $1,- No setup fee
- BMT Micro +-10% to 20% royalty +$1.25 No setup fee
- RegNow +-7% royalty + $1,- No setup fee
- 2Checkout +- 5.5% +$0.45 Setup fee of $45,-
- Plimus +-5% to 15% No extra's. No setup fee
- eSellerate +-10%-15% No extra's. Setup fee: Unknow

Do you use any of them?
If so why?
Like, why would you got with BMT Micro if PayPal is cheaper?
Please share your experiance and toughts.

Myself im going with PayPal. Since i can now accept credit-card transactions without people having to signup for a paypal account. They lack features like discount codes and coupons, but this is where my website comes in. I do EVERYTHING on my secure website. Once the total ammount is calculated i send the information to PayPal, where they leave their CC number, and checkout and return to my website. Main reason i stick with PayPal is because of the low fees.

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i switched to Plimus XD

No. Well I think GG still has a PayPal backup, but not for long.



For the same reason you'd buy a van when bicycles are cheaper. They're completely different things. Do PayPal deliver your downloads? Nope. Do PayPal generate serial keys for you? Nope. Do PayPal let you customize your order page to look like another page on your website? ( I'm not answering that one because I genuinely don't know. )

I use BMT Micro. May not be the cheapest, but their service is great. As Gabriel mentioend, they host your downloads, generate serial keys, and they will customise the order page for you as well. I once requested that they start sending my payments to PayPal rather than send me a cheque (because my bank charges me £5 for depositing a US cheque), and they did it within 5 minutes. Like I said, service.

BMT do host demo downloads, but, their download server is so horribly slow, I generally wouldn't use it as a primary download link. The speed will put people off.

BMT for key generation. My own space for downloads. I thought it was only 10% royalty, where has that 20% figure come from?

Their top tier (comprehensive) is 20%.

BMT, good service, but even more important they're nice people.
Their download is indeed horrible slow, as is sometimes the order form.
If you use Armadillo as copyprotection they can make new keys from their site which is very handy.

If you're targeting the BeNeLux also, don't forget iDeal.

Grey Alien, just wondering.. whats so special about their key-generation?
Cause it aint hard to make a key-gen script in PHP. I already got one for my own purposes.
If it saves you 5% on sales :P you save $100 on $2000 sales.

@knotz, yeah im planning to work with IDeal to. But that works for benelux only on both sides.

Also, a good alternative is ClickTeam Install Creator PRO. That has a serial-protected installer.

We use Plimus. They're fairly cheap, provide great customer service, handle affiliate requests... etc etc... have a look here- http://www.plimus.com/solutions.html

Paypal on the other hand makes you look unprofessional, and many people believe it's insecure. I for one cringe whenever I need to buy something through Paypal, because I don't like the ordering process. Ordering through Plimus has always been a good experience for me.

At no time have we considered moving from Plimus.

Gobbo: What keys for Armadillo, which is what I use to wrap my games? Well anyway, I'm not that good at php.

I also have set up my games on PLimus for affiliate sales. Plimus actually seems a bit more ceomprehenseive thatn BMT.

Can't answer for Grey (edit - I see he just did), but my answer is simply that it saves you doing it yourself, especially if you don't know the first thing about PHP. Plus, key generation is just part of the larger package that they offer, which is excellent.

Didn't know about their download speed problem, though. Shouldn't affect me too much though, as I'm considering Armadillo for my future releases, so I'll be hosting the files and just using BMT to handle all the online selling, etc.

You guys talking about: http://siliconrealms.com/armadillo.shtml? heh, never knew its existing.. im going to have a look at that.

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i looked @plimus also... looks prommesing
@Reactor: do they do serail keys also? and what about coupons and discount codes?

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kewl, i signed up for Plimus... its cool!

eSellerate - best reporting system in the business and also have a decent DRM solution for MACs.

Gobbo:

http://greyaliengames.com/blog/quick-armadillo-summary/

Plimus

Hi,

Any Aussies signed up with Share*it or similar - how are you receving your payments?? Can you go through your Bank with direct payments ie. Westpac etc.

If you have any info can you e-mail me at msmith@...

i came up with this protection system:
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=69356

I use shareit for framework sales and they pay directly into my bank with a small fee.

oops, did i just bump an old topic? sorry. XD

since im member of Plimus, i wondered how to get the coupon thigy to work. Does anyone know how that works?