Thread: ccbill WTF!!!
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Old 06-30-2002, 11:42 AM  
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Originally posted by Kimmykim


Actually Lenny2 the way the system works is a bit different UNLESS you are running a free trial.

When a customer is running a paid trial for 2.95, that is all that is authorized and charged on the card. The rebill amount isn't authorized until the time of the rebill, which is where alot of surfers don't make the cut since they don't have 30 bucks left on their card to spend. What CCBill does in that instance is keep on attempting to rebill the card for 6 more days, hoping that the surfer pays his bill and has some more credit available.

In the case of a free trial, the entire amount is pre-auth'd against the card, so the decline rate on free trials is quite a bit higher than on low cost trials, due to the very thing you describe. You can't give the surfer free access for the trial, since you know he can't pay at the end. You aren't doing a rebill so you only have one shot at getting the card to go thru for the free trial.
I stand corrected. Do all processors do it this way or is it just CCbill?

But I was right about your dick being bigger wasn't I?
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