Facebook Payment - simple form?

b_sun

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I have a client that generates a good portion of their new business on Facebook through an 'intro deal'. They are interested in utilizing Facebook payments to take payment right on Facebook (no shit) for their intro deal, instead of sending them to a website + form + payment.

I've dug into the documentation for Facebook payments and it seems to be app only shit with credits. Like "Buy 3 Dipshit credits to get a free Snookie doll for the Jersey Shore app!.

Does anyone have any experience with Facebook payments? Is a simple form + payment option possible?

Thanks in advance
 


I've dug into the documentation for Facebook payments and it seems to be app only shit with credits. Like "Buy 3 Dipshit credits to get a free Snookie doll for the Jersey Shore app!.

Actually NO! Displaying prices in a localized currency is pretty simple by multiplication of the credit value with the users currency_exchange_inverse and the currency_offset and then rounding off the result.

Ref -
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/payments/build/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/user-currency/

You're right about one thing though. Credits are in-app only.

You will need an app, but if your client has a facebook page, you can build the app as a cart for the page and then display localized pricing on it. So you won't need 3 Dipshit credits for the free Snookie doll, rather a price of $0.30 (pretty cheap IMO)

My experience however says that currency values kind of putt-off users. Ask them to pay $10 and they may think twice. Ask for 98 or so credits and they'll pay in a jiffy.