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MerlinRo's avatar

Payment methods for a marketplace in the EU

I hope it's the right channel for my question.

I'm planning to build a marketplace with Laravel. Dealers can offer services and customers can buy them.

Now I am looking for a payment provider.

Credit cards are not widely used in the EU.

Are there other providers besides Stripe? What are your tips? Which ones do you use?

Thank you very much!

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Nash's avatar

There's always PayPal but other than that, I'd say it varies from country to country. If you don't want to use credit cards for payment, you'll probably be looking at some sort of bank transfer or billing service and will probably need to use some local provider. Check out some local eCommerce sites and see what they use or ask them or your bank directly.

You could also just display or email the billing information and account number to your customer and have them make the bank transfer manually but then you'll probably have to verify all payments and orders manually, which is a bit of a hassle.

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kifajik's avatar

The Lavarel is such popular web framework, even i have developed lots of web applications in Lavarel. I am working on website Tesco Payslip where i want users to do transactions and the website will generate the pay slips on monthly basis, is Lavarel will be secure to do that ? if yes please suggest me some documenation.

Thank you.

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