ManuTOO
10-09-2004, 11:13 AM
Hello,
I just wanted to share my experience from these 3 eseller service solutions.
Regshare ( http://www.regshare.com/ ) is a very good site, but it doesn't specify all the little things that can have importance on the long term.
So 1st, all of these 3 services can avoid u to pay VAT for europeans buyers. That's 17.5% saved (for u, or for ur customers, as u prefer ;) ).
When I started to sell my game, I chose Yaskifo. I'm french, they're french, so it was just more easy for a beginning.
But after a while, I found out 2 annoying things :
- 10% conversion spread for sales in other currency than Euro : added to their high procession fee, it was just a lot too much
- too much commission for affiliate : the commission is on the gross price, not on the net income. And after that, they charge 20% before give the money to the affiliate.
The good points :
- good quality of service, fast answer to my emails
- nice features (as the "scoring", something to help u a bit to guess if it's a fraudulent order or not)
- free to receive the money on my bank account, each month
- free to refund users
- for charge back, the fee is only their commission
- multi-language order form, and real multi-currency processing
Another little annoying things :
- cannot specify different amounts depending of the currency chosen by the customer
- cannot customize the order page
- so far, I got a few charge backs
- the processing fee is a bit too high
So after I went to try Shareit.
My 1st impression was about the control panel : it's so much more complete than the Yaskifo's one !
But they have also a very annoying point :
- they charge me for issuing a refund, of the amount of their initial commission. They said me it was coz the Credit Card Processor asked them for this fee. But what a coincidence ! This fee is exactly the amount of the ShareIt commission ? don't they do benefit over the credit card processor ?
Good points :
- They only charge 2€ (or 2$) to send the money to my bank.
- very nice control of almost everything
- Good way to handle affiliate (only 2% of fee for me, nothing for the affiliates).
- almost 0% spread for currency conversion
- no charge back so far
- multi-language order form, but only 3 different currencies really handled
At last Paypal. I used it from the start, too. But I was always afraid to get "frozen", coz I read many bad things about them. Now, they belong to eBay, the trouble should not happen as often. And so far, everything was fine for me with them.
Good points :
- they have the lowest processing fee (of the 3 services here)
- no fee for refund
- no charge back so far
- only 1€ to receive the money in my bank account, whenever I want to get it
- about 2.5% spread for currency conversion
Little annoying things :
- not too much control on the payment pages
I never had to contact Paypal, so I don't know about this point of quality.
So what to choose ?
If u're french, start with Yaskifo, it's nice for a beginning. Once ur sales are higher, and u used with the eSelling world, swap to ShareIt (or another one u like), coz Yaskifo is too expensive (except if u have many refunds).
If u're not french, start with ShareIt is possible, even if the Control Panel is a bit intimidating ... :p
A full Paypal solution might be ok... Maybe I'll try it sometimes ... :)
I hope I forgot nothing important for the comparaison between these 3 services. Anyway, many more infos can be found on Regshare.
I just wanted to share my experience from these 3 eseller service solutions.
Regshare ( http://www.regshare.com/ ) is a very good site, but it doesn't specify all the little things that can have importance on the long term.
So 1st, all of these 3 services can avoid u to pay VAT for europeans buyers. That's 17.5% saved (for u, or for ur customers, as u prefer ;) ).
When I started to sell my game, I chose Yaskifo. I'm french, they're french, so it was just more easy for a beginning.
But after a while, I found out 2 annoying things :
- 10% conversion spread for sales in other currency than Euro : added to their high procession fee, it was just a lot too much
- too much commission for affiliate : the commission is on the gross price, not on the net income. And after that, they charge 20% before give the money to the affiliate.
The good points :
- good quality of service, fast answer to my emails
- nice features (as the "scoring", something to help u a bit to guess if it's a fraudulent order or not)
- free to receive the money on my bank account, each month
- free to refund users
- for charge back, the fee is only their commission
- multi-language order form, and real multi-currency processing
Another little annoying things :
- cannot specify different amounts depending of the currency chosen by the customer
- cannot customize the order page
- so far, I got a few charge backs
- the processing fee is a bit too high
So after I went to try Shareit.
My 1st impression was about the control panel : it's so much more complete than the Yaskifo's one !
But they have also a very annoying point :
- they charge me for issuing a refund, of the amount of their initial commission. They said me it was coz the Credit Card Processor asked them for this fee. But what a coincidence ! This fee is exactly the amount of the ShareIt commission ? don't they do benefit over the credit card processor ?
Good points :
- They only charge 2€ (or 2$) to send the money to my bank.
- very nice control of almost everything
- Good way to handle affiliate (only 2% of fee for me, nothing for the affiliates).
- almost 0% spread for currency conversion
- no charge back so far
- multi-language order form, but only 3 different currencies really handled
At last Paypal. I used it from the start, too. But I was always afraid to get "frozen", coz I read many bad things about them. Now, they belong to eBay, the trouble should not happen as often. And so far, everything was fine for me with them.
Good points :
- they have the lowest processing fee (of the 3 services here)
- no fee for refund
- no charge back so far
- only 1€ to receive the money in my bank account, whenever I want to get it
- about 2.5% spread for currency conversion
Little annoying things :
- not too much control on the payment pages
I never had to contact Paypal, so I don't know about this point of quality.
So what to choose ?
If u're french, start with Yaskifo, it's nice for a beginning. Once ur sales are higher, and u used with the eSelling world, swap to ShareIt (or another one u like), coz Yaskifo is too expensive (except if u have many refunds).
If u're not french, start with ShareIt is possible, even if the Control Panel is a bit intimidating ... :p
A full Paypal solution might be ok... Maybe I'll try it sometimes ... :)
I hope I forgot nothing important for the comparaison between these 3 services. Anyway, many more infos can be found on Regshare.