In praise of Paysnap

Other than building a freebie project for Template repo using paysnap at the start of lockdown I’ve not had too much experience with it. I did work out it was pretty good when making that freebie project, but until you use something for one of your own projects you never really get a proper feel for it.

Today I had the need to fire up a quick store for a client to sell half a dozen products, so figured it was time to give it a proper try. And it’s really bloody good.

The store isn’t 100% sone yet, I still need to clean it up a bit, but it’s here: https://www.davidmcconkey.co.uk/store/

I wasn’t sure about one aspect of Paysnap so posted this on the RW forum, but tonight I’ve managed to answer the question myself. https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/paysnap-text-option-how-is-it-passed-to-site-owner/34486

There were a few other “oh, I really need Paysnap to do this” but after a bit of reading the manual I soon realised a solution was baked in. In short, Paysnap is a really well rounded solution for a small online store.

Hats off to Mr. @yabdab he’s done a great job.

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Thanks @steveb ! Your shop looks great. 😁

Nice. Looks really good.

Thanks Rob. I’m presently building it out into what is becoming a pretty well featured “drag-n-drop” project, so far for Foundry and UIkit, soon for Source too. The idea is users can simple add the entire project to their own site and have a fully functioning Paysnap powered store all setup and ready to accept product.

@yabdab I’m stuck on one area of the new project and have sent you a support request to see if you have any ideas.

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Store looks great. Does Paysnap handle digital downloads and does it do all the EU compliant stuff?

Can’t comment on digital downloads, don’t think so, but @yabdab is the man to answer that one. As for EU compliance… You mean SCA? In testing, I put through a few real transactions (using Stripe Live keys) and I got no non-compliant warnings, so I’m gonna say it’s good to go.

I had a look at the product page and it doesn’t look like it. I think that’s the incentive to go for Cartloom (which obviously has the monthly fee).

Cartloom is free? Really? That’s new!

There are plenty of “buy-once” solutions out there for digital.

@Bazza - Paysnap does not handle digital downloads ( but Cartloom does ). Stripe and PayPal handle all the SCA compliance on their end.

@steveb - The Cartloom free “Play” plan allows you to test out Cartloom service . It does not allow actual payments however. This plan has been available for many months now. To actually make money a Plus or Pro plan is required.

https://cartloom.com/pricing

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Paysnap is obviously not for me at the moment, but I do own Formloom 3 and Go CMS. The reliability, stability and quality of both are exemplary.

I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Yabdab to any fellow RW user.

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