On July 17, 2008
I am delighted to announce that the SaaS Rails Kit now supports the Authorize.net payment gateway with their CIM offering. Supporting this gateway has been a much-requested feature, and now it is that much easier to get your new subscription-based web application up and running.
Connecting to the Authorize.net payment gateway is as easy as any of the other supported gateways. Once you have your Authorize.net account with CIM activated, simply drop in the API login credentials into the gateway configuration file, specify the authorize_net_cim gateway in the application configuration file, and start the sample application. You'll then be up and running with a bare-bones Rails application that can handle self-service account creations, upgrades and downgrades, the collecting of payment information, and automated recurring billing.
On June 20, 2008
The SaaS Rails Kit now supports PayPal as a payment method. This has been a much-requested feature, so I'm delighted to be able to have it available.
When your application is built on the SaaS Rails Kit, your customers can choose whether to provide payment info via a credit card of via PayPal. If your customer chooses PayPal, he is redirected to PayPal to create a billing agreement for your service, and then is redirected back to your application. By using the API provided by Website Payments Standard (the basic business plan offered by PayPal), your Rails application can make charges on demand against these billing agreements, just as it does for those customers who are paying with credit cards. There's no additional setup required, beyond providing your PayPal credentials in the config file.
To help celebrate this new functionality, I'm offering a 10% discount on the SaaS Rails Kit... use the discount code "paypal" during checkout before July 15th to get the discount.
On June 09, 2008
I just released an update to the SaaS Rails Kit that includes support for Rails 2.1 and two new gateways: Payment Express and TrustCommerce. With the addition of the Payment Express gateway, you can now use the Kit to build your subscription-based web application using a bank in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Singapore, South Africa, or the United Kingdom. Braintree supports merchants in the US.
If you have a particular gateway you would like to have supported by the Kit, feel free to get in touch to let me know and I'll take a look at adding it.
