I recently switched from Plimus to Avangate as my primary order processor, because Avangate has much better support for Japanese.
I receive my payments to my PayPal account, but when I started getting payments from Avangate, I noticed that PayPal was charging me a fee of around 3.9% of the payment. I never had this fee with Plimus, and needless to say an added 3.9% fee made Avangate pretty uncompetitive cost-wise, so I contacted Avangate and asked them what the story was.
After a bit of a delay and some back and forth, including me sending them screen shots of my PayPal page showing the fee for Avangate and no fee for Plimus, Avangate responded that they had changed their payment method to “mass payments,” and will cover the cost of transfer from now on. From their email to me:
We are currently using the PayPal service called „Send Money” to transfer the revenue to our partners and the commission is paied by the person receiving the amount.
Plimus was sending you the money through „Mass payments”, where the transfer fees are lower and they are paied by the sender.
We are willing to use this Mass payments service for your company, so there will be no cost at all for you when the monthly transfers are taking place.
The upshot is that I’ll no longer have the 3.9% PayPal fee charged for my payments from Avangate, and I’m a happy camper again.
6 replies on “Avangate eliminates PayPal fees on payments”
Hi Ryan, We are thinking of using Avangate for our ecommerce solutions. Would you recommend them?
@Stephen
If you need to have customized payment pages in other than English, then I think Avangate is the best service out there (despite their flaws). Otherwise, I’d advise checking out FastSpring.
Hello,
I have an offer from Avangate to be their client, what about web marketing, do they deal with it?
@Vladimir
I only use Avangate as a payment processor, so I’m not familiar with their other services. I believe that they have a reseller network.
Hi Ryan, I hesitated to change my primary order processor from regnow to avangate, after reading your blog, I decide to make avangate as my primary order processor. thank you for your blog of avangate.
Hi
I recently signup with avangate can anyone tell me that what is the payout date for vendors and have they ask for software testing from vendors