I am considering adding Digital Downloads to my site, but am not sure how to handle the payment side.
Currently we have a merchant account and our own secure server, and capture payment details for off-line processing when the order itself is processed. This works very well our situation, and I don't want to change this arrangement for sales of our 'regular' products.
If we start selling DDs though, we will need some kind of on-line authorisation system to ensure that the DDs have been paid for before they are downloaded. Even if we were to take on the extra cost of signing up for a PSP in addition to our existing merchant account, I am unclear on how the website could be arranged to send DD orders to the PSP, but continue to send payment info for non-DD orders to us in the usual way.
A simpler (but less satisfactory) solution might be to only accept Pay Pal payments for DD orders, but again I don't know how to make Pay Pal the only payment option for DDs.
This must be a fairly common situation, so I would be grateful for any advice.
Another solutions to the problem would be to sell vouchers or 'credits', or even some kind of membership that could be used to access the DDs, but again I cannot figure out a satisfactory way of doing it without paying the excessive cost of upgrading to Business, and even then it is a bit of a fiddle.
Jeremy
Currently we have a merchant account and our own secure server, and capture payment details for off-line processing when the order itself is processed. This works very well our situation, and I don't want to change this arrangement for sales of our 'regular' products.
If we start selling DDs though, we will need some kind of on-line authorisation system to ensure that the DDs have been paid for before they are downloaded. Even if we were to take on the extra cost of signing up for a PSP in addition to our existing merchant account, I am unclear on how the website could be arranged to send DD orders to the PSP, but continue to send payment info for non-DD orders to us in the usual way.
A simpler (but less satisfactory) solution might be to only accept Pay Pal payments for DD orders, but again I don't know how to make Pay Pal the only payment option for DDs.
This must be a fairly common situation, so I would be grateful for any advice.
Another solutions to the problem would be to sell vouchers or 'credits', or even some kind of membership that could be used to access the DDs, but again I cannot figure out a satisfactory way of doing it without paying the excessive cost of upgrading to Business, and even then it is a bit of a fiddle.
Jeremy
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