money money money...

[zvi5]

okay,i know there are a few topics on here related to irl money ect...


what i came here to do is a.ask a few questions b.give ideas c.get answers hopefully.

A
okay,so i have done a bit of research and i found out 3 main ways of getting players to pay for resources/turns/mana ect ect...
1
Paypal!,of course most of us know the famous paypal with a very lot of options like, microtransactions, donations and others.

2
Pay-By-Sms
I have seen these in a lot of games and more and more games/websites have this option for payments,the main problem with this is for some countries they will take 70% to them and you earn only 30% so only use this if you are sure people will pay,(WARNING:if you do use this REMEMBER to make it VERY CLEAR that the use of this is with parents permission or you are over the age of 18!)

3
Pay-By-Phone you could copy what i said about the Pay-By-Sms,just REMEMEBER the warning,and only 30%.

B
1.with Paypal,i would really like to know how to sell non material objects/links ect since i did not find any guide online or on the paypal site (remember this is not for only microtransactions)
2.could set on Paypal that when a user/player buys a certain thing my email account (gmail or any other mailing system) will automatically send a random id received from paypal/generated from the email so that, that player/user will enter on the website to get the turns/mana/resources?
the above question goes for the sms and phone too,

thank-you all =)
and now for your answers.
C

[Chris]

Yeah, this is all possible with PayPal and should be possible with any other pay site. You'll have to look up the documentation for their API or whatever they make use of.

[Jackolantern]

I would just stay away from "pay-by-SMS". These are so many shady practices going on through text messages today as far as subscription services go, and it is also one of the most deniable ways of paying for customers. You have no way of telling who actually made the text and no verification that you normally get over the phone, so many mobile providers will simply reject the payment and blacklist you. Smaller businesses are almost always better off with Paypal.