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Billing for work with Cash and Check [closed]

Freelancing payment solutions are plentiful. But are there any that allow clients to pay me with Cash or Check (without me having to accept it personally)?
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Integrating PayPal with my MVC 4 application [closed]

I'm creating an MVC 4 browser based application that provides a service. The service will be free to start and then I'll start charging for it. I'd like to know, from people who have already done ...
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Handling subscriptions, balances and pricing plan changes

Preamble My aim is to create reusable code for multiple projects (and also publish it on github) to manage subscriptions. I know about stripe and recurring billing providers, but that's not what this ...
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How to overcome the fear of building a web application with a recurring payment system?

I'm a Ruby on Rails developer. I'd like to create a web application. I will let users get a payed subscription to use the product. So I will need a recurring billing system (e.g. via paypal). But ...
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Freelancing - Getting paid for the quote or estimate

It is often necessary to spend time designing a solution, breaking down the design into tasks and sub tasks and estimating the time it will take to complete each task in order to produce a reasonable ...
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Question about initial interview for job [closed]

So I feel kind of stupid having to ask this but tomorrow I have a phone interview with a good company. Phone interviews themselves not a big deal for me, but having to tell them my salary ...
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Is there a way for developers and their clients to make a 'safety net' for the final transaction of software for money?

First off, we presume that the projects in question are not large or important enough for the parties involved to establish a formal contract, and that the parties are not able to meet in person. So, ...
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Integrating with a payment provider; Proper and robust OOP approach

History We are currently using a so called redirect model for our online payments (where you send the payer to a payment gateway, where he inputs his payment details - the gateway will then return ...
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Why payment processors rarely support account outside USA? [closed]

Researching for a payment processor/ merchant account is hard. For us, that live outside USA is very very hard. I wonder what reason exist for services like https://stripe.com/ or ...
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Should I ask for advance payment on custom work? [closed]

...for project-based work. So far I didn't, and always got paid when work was complete and didn't ran into any problems. Does this make me look unprofessional? :) Should I ask like 25% - 50% advance ...
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How does a paid Saas actually work? [closed]

Could anyone explain to me how does a paid Saas work please? I know for free Saas you can just create some kind of registration and authentication process which allows the users to use all features. ...
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Best-practice to manage concurrency into a basket in a e-commerce website

What is the best practice to manage the case where two customers add in the same time a product whose the stock was only 1 ? Must there be a check in the code of the basket to avoid one of these 2 ...
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Rewarding open-source contributors

Is there a service which could help me reward (pay) the contributors of an open-source project by their contribution to the project (Maybe using data from where the code is hosted GitHub)? Maybe by ...
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PCI Compliance, FDMS and TransArmor

So, I've been tasked to work on an integration project where we will ask customers for credit card information and send it over to our integration partners, who will process the payment/cc info and ...
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Using Paypal (or similar) to log into my site?

I have a web site and I want to offer a few levels of service - one free, one for a one-off payment, and one for a subscription. My first inclination is to use Paypal for the payment options. I ...
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What do you do to make the client understand that requirements not mentioned in contract should be charged separately?

I've done a very small project for a specified amount of payment. The project was some client-side validation code. However, now client asks for code improvement (general code improvement including ...