http://www.payoffline.com/

[ToyCrazyUK]

Hi

Would it be possible for eBid to have integrated payment facilities with payoffline? Here is some information that I have got about it:

Supported by Alliance & Leicester, Pay Offline provides an innovative and new way to pay for internet purchases allowing consumers to shop online and pay offline with cash or debit card at their local payzone outlet.

Pay Offline is basically a new and innovative way of making offline payments for products purchased online. The concept is as simple as your customer printing out a barcode at the checkout as opposed to entering card details. The barcode can then be taken to any one of the 17,000 payzone outlet's nationwide and the amount for the transaction can be paid there in cash.

This clearly opens up the possibilities of capturing customers who do not have credit or debit cards – a market previously alienated in terms of ecommerce. It could also prove to be a great alternative to cheque payments, allowing you to ship goods to your customers quicker and with less admin effort.

It looks useful for people who are reluctant to gve their credit card details over the web, or who do not have credit cards.

Anyone else used this?

[kengillam]

Not heard of this, will go and have a look.

[snitch2000]

Here is another http://www.paypoint.co.uk/ thats quite popular.

[kengillam]

With payoffline it looks as though they will hold selllers money for 30days, add that up for a lot of little sellers and they will make a fair bit of interest. Nice little earner!! the actual transaction rate isn't a great deal better the PayPoo, and at least you can spend your PayPoo balance.

[ToyCrazyUK]

So it's only worth signing up it if it brings in buyers who do not like to use their bank details on the internet. Are there many people around in that category who would be likely to shop online?

[nykmedia]

I'll go looking through the forums as I already did an article for here about credEcard, which works on a barcode system but can be paid anywhere you see the PayPoint sign. I've had great success with this for non-card payments and they text your mobile each time your balance changes. Will be back with the link when I find it.

OK, I'm back - the payments articles are here. The original PayPoint one had been deleted, so I have relisted the original article entitled Pay Cash at PayPoint.

eBid doesn't have to integrate all the payments systems as each seller can include the details in their listings or in a notice at the top of their auctions. (But the option to tick 'pay by cash' or 'cash at PayPoint' would be handy for the future).