# Payment gateway recommendations

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-gateway-recommendations/125599>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 10, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-gateway-recommendations/125599 "2008-01-10T14:17:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Norm)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-gateway-recommendations/125599/1 "2008-01-10T14:17:54Z")

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I’m new to payment gateways and was looking for some recommendations  
on a quality one to use that integrates well with rails.

Thanks,

Norm

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**Author:** ![Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Norm)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-gateway-recommendations/125599/2 "2008-01-11T10:56:53Z")

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Norm wrote:

> I’m new to payment gateways and was looking for some recommendations  
> on a quality one to use that integrates well with rails.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Norm

we just put up an online shop with Triple Deal Payment Services  
[http://corporate.tripledeal.com/](http://corporate.tripledeal.com/)

their interface is quite simple, everything goes with a few https calls  
like  
https://tripledeal\_server\_thingy.com/…blah\_blah…PaymentService?  
command=show\_payment\_cluster&merchant\_name=our\_shop&  
merchant\_transaction\_id=our\_id\_001&client\_language=EN&  
payment\_cluster\_key=1234567890

no rails plugin or other help for that, but easy enough and  
they offer a wide range of payment methods and other  
backoffice functionality (like automatic billing and remainder mails)

you can put up the basics with a week of work or so

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**Author:** ![Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Norm)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-gateway-recommendations/125599/3 "2008-01-11T12:53:56Z")

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Hiya Norm ,

Have a look at [http://www.activemerchant.org/](http://www.activemerchant.org/) - lots of people use this  
& it works well with a number of merchants.

I’ve used this with paypal & it worked wonderfully well.

Our paypal installation worked very well. I think the fees are a little  
higher than a bank merchant account, but you may not be able to obtain a  
bank merchant account if you are just starting up [this might just be  
for the UK].

Tickex - the search engine for concert, sports, and theatre tickets  
[http://www.tickex.com](http://www.tickex.com)

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**Author:** ![Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Norm)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-gateway-recommendations/125599/4 "2008-01-16T20:37:31Z")

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Thanks so much for the info from both of you. I’m going to give them a  
real hard look at.

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**Author:** ![Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Norm)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payment-gateway-recommendations/125599/5 "2008-01-11T18:30:39Z")

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We’re using Braintree Payment Solutions  
([www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com](http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com)), which is supported by the Active  
Merchant plug-in, and have been quite happy with it.

The fees vary from a bit less than PayPal to a little more, depending  
on the card type, whether address is verified, and so forth. But  
unlike PayPay, they don’t insist on imposing their brand on your  
customers; it all stays in the background.

Michael S.  
[www.BuildingWebApps.com](http://www.BuildingWebApps.com)  
[www.LearningRails.com](http://www.LearningRails.com)