[Hidden-tech] Online conference registration

[David Spound]

You are correct. Customers can pay by credit card without needing a PayPal
account. I have done this, too.

David



on 1/15/07 7:48 PM, Matt Lampiasi at mattl at florenceit.net wrote:

> I did a paypal cart for a nonprofit recently and was quite sure one of the
> paypal options does not require the customer to have a paypal account. i'm not
> sure if you have to pay for another level or something, but it is an option
> (that users don't need a paypal account). so you can use it as an affordable
> low volume replacement for a merchant services account.
> 
> Bruce G. Hooke wrote:
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>>  Online conference registration
>> I would be a bit cautious about using a system that actually requires people
>> to be PayPal members in order to register (depending in part on the
>> demographics of the expected participants). For a lot of us, PayPal is just
>> another way of doing business, but I've recently watched my father (who is in
>> his late 60's) try to make sense of PayPal and run into all sorts of
>> problems.
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>> I wish I had a positive solution to offer you, but the only solution I know
>> of takes up to 90 days to implement and is really targeted at long-term use
>> rather than a one-off event.
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>> From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net
>> [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of David
>> Spound
>>  Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:52 PM
>>  To: Hidden Tech
>>  Subject: [Hidden-tech] Online conference registration
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>>  I may need to provide online registration for an educational conference that
>> is scheduled for just 10 weeks from now (short notice!). It is expected that
>> 300-400 people will register.
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>> I am looking for a quick ‹ hosted? ‹ solution that can be implemented within
>> one week!
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>> Besides basic contact information, and online payment by credit card, I need
>> to make it possible for people to sign up for the entire conference or just
>> for discreet portions (a la carte).
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>> Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated.
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>> David
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