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somebody's gonna get SUPER RICH implementing a "copy and paste" javascript snippet that allows you to accept payment from paypal, amazon, moneybookers, credit cards, SMS, and whatever else is fashionable in the local region.



Say someone made a site that produced these snippets. How would they become super rich off it?


it solves a problem for pretty much everyone who sells things online. maybe you could charge 1% of transactions or something.


You wouldn't know what transactions occurred, and 1% of a company's revenue is not a reasonable payment for doing nothing but saving time copying-and-pasting implementation scripts from the individual payment sites.

If you meant that this site should somehow provide a payment button for all those providers without even opening an account with them, that's not a problem you can solve with technology. Know-your-customer banking laws and factoring clauses in merchant agreements mean you can never create that service.


Just charge a fixed fee. Why charge a %age? Not necessary. (I know, everyone does it. Doesn't make it right, though.)


That's what my startup is doing - fleapay.com - sort of.




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