{"id":668,"date":"2005-09-07T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T15:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2005-09-07T11:34:51","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T15:34:51","slug":"cancelling-paypal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/09\/07\/cancelling-paypal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancelling paypal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI was going to go with PayPal for recurring billing because they have a powerful API and are relatively low cost.  But after reading this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingawful.com\/articles.php?a=3186\">The PayPal Fiasco<\/a> I decided this was a very bad idea.  PayPal could shut me down anytime they wanted, for any or no reason, and keep all my money.  I would be basing my entire business on the mercy of a third party that doesn&#8217;t care about the success or failure of my business and in fact has self-interest to see that I fail.  My alternatives are a lot of trouble but so far the best seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paymentonline.com\">Payment Online<\/a>.  For some upfront fees they have the lowest rate of 30 cents plus 2.15% per transaction.  The company looks professional and they offer APIs that seem to do everything I want.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to go with PayPal for recurring billing because they have a powerful API and are relatively low cost. But after reading this The PayPal Fiasco I decided this was a very bad idea. PayPal could shut me down anytime they wanted, for any or no reason, and keep all my money. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}