Alternatives to ShareIt/MyCommerce/Digital River

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https://www.golem.de/news/e-commerce-di ... 89897.html

[IaES]

Dear Valued Customer,
. . .
Blah blah
. . .
Thank you for your continued trust and support.

Best regards,
Your MyCommerce Team

I had to LOL at that.

"Trust".

We're well past that now. I wouldn't p*ss on you guys if you were on fire.

[Otis_Inf]

. . . Currently working to migrate to PayPro Global . . .

Are your sales B2C or B2B?

B2B, we make and sell software for professional software developers.

We need a MoR to handle the VAT/Tax as that's simply too cumbersome to deal with. We've used SWReg (Which was then bought by DR) and after that when it merged into MyCommerce, MyCommerce since 2002, and it worked 'ok' for the most part, till these shenanigans began some months ago with MyCommerce and as others here we haven't been paid since July 15th.
PayPro Global seems a nice bunch of people, a system that's familiar to MyCommerce.

[Otis_Inf]

You should try PayPro Global. we've been with them for a while and they are responsive and easy to setup and no minimum amounts.

What is "PayPal Global". Is that different to a normal PayPal business account?

haha the amount of time I've called them PayPal Global
No it's PayPro Global https://payproglobal.com/
Was founded by one of the Plimus guys, if one can still remember them (which are nowadays Bluesnap)

[IaES]

haha the amount of time I've called them PayPal Global
No it's PayPro Global https://payproglobal.com/

d'oh!

What's their fees like? I looked at their site and they don't show the fees. Just a button to get a quote.

[HSchoenb]

For those considering Cleverbridge as a replacement, I contacted them and had a nice conversation with one of their sales agent, but it turned out that they only work with clients with €50k+ monthly turnover.

I am at digistore24.com now.
So far so good.
Payment can be done multiple times in a month (I setup twice a month).
Orders with a price higher than 300 are withold for 30 days. 10% is withold for 60 days. Better than 100% withhold as DR does it now).

So if I ignore all sales smaller than 300 and these 10%, I get my money 30-45 days after the order.
With the "old" process at Digital River it took 15-45 days, the new one 60-90 days. If paid at all.

[ChrisG_33_JB]

Here, too. I did not get any payment since july. Had to fill in that due diligence and hab that phone call to confirm. (Been with shareit/DR/mycommerce since 2005)
I added a new support ticket 6 days ago, no answer so far.

Chris (Munich, Germany)

[ChrisG_33_JB]

I will have a look at Cleverbridge.
Anyone from Germany alread migrated.
I would like to exchange infos about that.

[welle]

We -from Germany- moved to Paddle. Bit cumbersome the integration, especially if our needs are quite simplebut we succeeded in a couple of days to ahave a solid integration. On the bright side, their API and data flow is so detailed that it opens quite interesting options. The cart is a simple JS integration, Up and running in 5 minutes. Looks much better than DR since it is properly integrated in your webpage (not a DR webpage). Don't see at the moment any reason why the MoR should be based in Germany.

[Simple_Guy]

My guess regarding the cause of all of this is that the US might have blocked the assets of Digital River because of the US ban of sale of Kaspersy Anti Virus (which was distributed by Digital River) from July 20 on - which perfectly matches the last payment on July 15

I don't think it has anything to do with a single client like Kaspersky not being able to sell their product in the US market only. That was the only ban.
Financial problems were reported already a year ago (see https://www.thelayoff.com/digital-river ) . I don't think the new platform fee, payout delays and thresholds aren't there for compliance reasons.

Last one out, turn off the lights.

[Otis_Inf]

haha the amount of time I've called them PayPal Global
No it's PayPro Global https://payproglobal.com/

d'oh!

What's their fees like? I looked at their site and they don't show the fees. Just a button to get a quote.

We're going to pay 4.9% + $1 per sale, so that's less than MyCommerce (which was 5.4% + $0.90).They pay 15 days after the last day of the month, or on the schedule you set.

[zccKlompf]

We're going to pay 4.9% + $1 per sale, so that's less than MyCommerce (which was 5.4% + $0.90).They pay 15 days after the last day of the month, or on the schedule you set.

Same here. Got account approved after a video call. Fastspring takes 2 days.

P.S. Don't try 2checkout as it is ridiculous. We started the applications two weeks ago and got declined without reason.

[ssec]

Stripe is very good, but it's not MoR so more work involved with taxes etc. But you have full control, can payout daily.
Lemon Squeezy is MoR, it's inexpensive, based on Stripe, and they have been bought by Stripe on 26th July...
https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/blog/strip ... on-squeezy

Another nail on the DR coffin.

[barteko]

Dear Valued Customer,
...
Introduction of the MyCommerce Platform Fee: While this might seem like an additional cost, introducing a MyCommerce Platform Fee can often be associated with the promise of improved quality of service, access to premium features, and prioritized customer support.
...

I was actually triggered by the word "promise" used to justify the new fee. I wonder who wrote that, if it was in good faith... it's dumb to phrase it like this. Anyway, that was enough I had to read in the mail received on Sept 16th, so I stopped selling by deactivating all products and deleting fulfillment settings and descriptions and moved to other platform within 5 days. Couple of days later sent account termination request (btw, still being processed, because the "team is still working on this issue"), generated and downloaded all kinds of reports, printed all pages to pdf, downloaded all agreements, including all communication with support, took some screenshots and also created a couple of support cases where I state what I did, so the evidence is stronger. I wish I did that all after August 15th mail...

[sft234]

Financial problems were reported already a year ago (see https://www.thelayoff.com/digital-river ) . I don't think the new platform fee, payout delays and thresholds aren't there for compliance reasons.

Sounds bad. I quote what someone wrote on this https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uSOXN0J thread about the new owner of DR on the site you linked in your post:

Its a simple scheme what Barry Kasoff is doing here:

• purchase DigitalRiver in August for a bargain

• put lots of debt on it, to pay out money to himself

• fire a lot of employees without severance

• lie to customers "we'll delay payouts" (he never planned to pay out anything)

• lie to employees "everything is fine"

finally, after stealing as much customer money as possible, let DR go bankrupt
and walk away hundreds of millions of US$ richer than before...

Let's hope that's bs...