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Originally Posted by mike503
Be able to accept signups from my own site without having to forward on to some hacked up template page.
Be able to check a user's status periodically.
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For self-hosted join pages, you're going to need a merchant account. For those, I have problems with them all to some degree, so I'm going to be blunt:
NetBilling is
pretty simple, and offers realtime post for an initial transaction, but polling/posting still blows - they administratively lock you to 50 queries/day. They've also had a lot of downtime recently.
Jettis, and
RSBilling also offer services - neither works quite right in NATS, I can't say much about a native implementation, but cancels seem to work just fine.
Jettis has a fairly extensive and complete XML based post/reply - but their postout system is unable to stay accurate or repost, so you can't trust stats.
RSBilling uses an incredibly, incredibly simple key=value system, but is only a post, postback, and poll based system, so realtime isn't really realtime.
Paygea (a bank, not a processor) claims they're going to have a native system available; but I wouldn't bet the farm on it being available any time soon, I've heard this since '07.
Everyone else I've worked with is 'they host it.' Some are better, some are worse. Good luck.