Hi everyone, I am in the process of setting up a membership site via Wordpress and considering amember as my membership gateway. I have been doing a lot of research and am almost ready to buy, however I have some questions. Maybe you can help? What is the best way to handle payments through amember? I have an authorize.net account already and use it for my business. I know some people push amember orders through 1shoppingcart and then it goes to authorize.net. Why not just go through amember then authorize.net to process the payments? I guess you can do either from what I have been reading. Any advantages to doing this? What about subscription automation? Does authorize.net pass information back to amember? Is the AIM plugin ready? Can someone just give a reason why I should pay extra for 1shoppingcart to process my orders instead of just going directly through authorize.net? I am looking for the most automated solution possible, so that I do not have to cancel members in two systems and want members to be able to update billing info and cancel themselves automatically if they want. Please help, like I said I am almost ready to buy but want to make sure I have going about things the right way.
Can somebody please help me understand this? I need to know before I begin setting things up. Basically, I just need to know the difference between going direct through authorize.net or using 1shoppingcart/authorize.net as a combo. Which one is easier/better and why? I want to streamline things as much as possible. Please help or share your experience. I'm sure other people have the same question. Thanks!
With 1sc you will still need to use an authorized.net. The main benefit of 1sc is that it has mailing list features, affiliate system - this lets you use their system for these functions. It also has a shopping cart function. David