More PayPal Issues
We’re all moved into our new office (with shiny new desks and everything) and Amigo is back on the conveyor belt. Here’s a quick tour of our office and Ryan to give you an update on the latest issue with PayPal.
RSS readers, view the video here.
I hope everything pans out for you guys…if it doesn’t, would another merchant solution be able to help? They almost alwyas have APIs that are pretty robust…
Comment by sj — June 13, 2006 @ 4:03 pm
Wow, the office looks pretty impressive, good job there, hope the paypal thing works out for ya!
Comment by James Deer — June 13, 2006 @ 4:51 pm
Sounds like Paypal has turned into the phone company…every operator has a different answer. Hopefully it works out. On the plus side, the office looks great!
Comment by Ryan Rumsey — June 13, 2006 @ 6:08 pm
I know you guys are in the UK, but are you targeting mostly US customers? I don’t know about the banking system there, but we have special numbers that go along with our account numbers that allow deposits, but not withdrawals.
They call it ACH, and it allows direct deposit into any US bank account. It’s very efective, and I’m fairly positive you could get some sort of API or plugin written to interface between your bank and US banks, or you could just open a US bank account for the US customers and use ACH for them.
I’d also be surprised if you don’t have a similar feature there in the UK, as you guys are usually a few years ahead of us when it comes to banking and personal security (ACH was developed so that people wouldn’t have to give their bank account numbers out to anyone wanting to wire them money).
Comment by Brandon — June 13, 2006 @ 7:35 pm
Thanks Brandon! We’re currently checking into ACH, but we’ll still probably go the Paypal route.
Comment by Ryan Carson — June 13, 2006 @ 10:59 pm
The Paypal issue sounds tedious, but the new office is looking good.
Comment by Tom McQuillen — June 14, 2006 @ 6:53 am
I’ve met some of the UK paypal guys (in fact had a job interview there) and am sure you can get some joy, one of their areas of focus this year is small to medium business and another is providing a more transparent usage of their service (I assume using their APIs). Good luck.
In other news… Ryan has ditched the old PC laptop he talked about struggling with during the building of DropSend (in his Web Apps on a budget presentation) for a nice shiny iMac! :-)
See you @@media.
Comment by Andy Croll — June 14, 2006 @ 8:14 am
Actually, my main machine is a small VAIO. The iMac is used for testing. However, Gill and Lisa have brand spanking new MacBooks, and I’m super jealous :)
Comment by Ryan Carson — June 14, 2006 @ 8:30 am
Ryan- Could you go more in depth on the paypal issues? Will that be a future entry?
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Comment by anon — June 15, 2006 @ 10:10 pm
I guess we could forgive you for being british and all… :-)
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