'Micro payments' seem to be a good alternative to generating revenue for various types of sites. For example, a gaming company charges pennies for their users to buy clothing items to decorate their virtual creatures. They have their users pre-pay for these purchases in advance (a 25ドル pre-payment). Then when a user wants to buy a hat for their character, their account can be debited that amount (maybe $.10). This reduces the costs of processing the micro payments and opens up many new possibilities for revenue generation.
I am trying to figure out which Drupal modules to use to do this. I have found some old threads of people trying to implement something similar but it doesn't seem that they were successful. I am trying to implement this on a video site.
Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated?
Thanks, Rani
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I'm pretty sure both
I'm pretty sure both e-Commerce and Ubercart have Userpoints integrations. I can only speak for the UC one and say that it allows you to associate Userpoints with a product, so if someone buys a "Game Credit" product for 25,ドル you can grant them 2500 points upon checkout. Then in future purchases you could let them pay by userpoints. I even wrote a module that would discount a product based on a user's points and then let them pay the balance by CC.
A word about micropayments... there are actually services (I know PayPal has one) that give you better rates for micropayment transactions... i.e. it would be cheaper for you to process a payment under 12ドル than it would one over 12ドル. So, if you use a service like that and sell game credit in chunks of 5ドル or 10,ドル you might benefit from both the micropayment fad and the cheaper processing rates.
Thank you for the details.
Thank you for the details. I am trying to test this now...