Pay By Touch appears to be axing iPay and its integration/processing system, and have asked us to switch to an alternative Pay By Touch system. However, they cannot migrate old recurring customers to the new system, and are telling us to manually key in CC and billing information. Given that any new system of theirs probably won't integrate well with aMember, we're looking for a good payment processing system that works with aMember, does recurring billing and will be around for a while. We offer non-adult material (PDF edition of a daily newspaper) PayPal is interesting, but it looks like their recurring billing still requires the customer to sign up for paypal as well as for us -- does paypal pro fix this? Amember's feature list suggests paypal pro doesn't do recurring billing at all. (To anyone wondering, I did iPay integration with aMember myself. iPay has a system similar to paypal's IPN. I was planning to share it once it worked perfectly, but now there is not much point.) Our aMember is a little old, I think, and our subscription ran out some time ago. We'd be happy to buy a new one if required to gain access to better recurring billing features.
PayPal Pro does not support recurring billing at all, not only with aMember. I recommend to have a look to these http://cgi-central.net/charge.php - they provide merchant accounts for LinkPoint.
Thanks for the fast reply, Alex. We already have an internet merchant bank account, so I'll check LinkPoint out today.
We went with charge.com, requesting authorize.net. They've been OK. They cannot be contacted by telephone, but email support has been fairly snappy. I generally don't feel comfortable with it, though, because it's just another thing getting in the way between you and the processing system.
direct I just found out you can buy authorize.net directly from authorize.net, without a reseller. $300 set up it's cheaper to buy it from Wells Fargo, bundled with a merchant account. WF supports authorize.net, cybersource, and verisign.