CS6320:  SW Engineering of Web Based Systems

 

Micropayments

 

Problem: What do you do when the cost of the item is low, and you can not make a profit paying for the credit card transaction fee?

  • Think buying a digital song or image or?
  • Some e-businesses form partnership with Utility company (they give a bill at the end of a month for a bunch of small fees...think phone calls), to lump their charge in with the utility bill and get payed by utility company for smaller fee.
  • Some companies like www.millicent.com dont exist anymore

 

Example: Qpass.com

  • f acilitates the management, merchandising and delivery of digital goods and services.

 

qpass website

 

 

© Lynne Grewe