Alternative Payment Resources

Digital Transactions did a great interview with Alex Rampell, founder of TrialPay. It gives insight into how TrialPay works, revealing a “bidding process” where advertisers bid on the chance to give your product away.  As of this writing, TrialPay is performing 10,000-15,000 transactions per day!  Merchants are signing up at the rate of about 10/day. 

Read the full article here:
http://www.digitaltransactions.net/newsstory.cfm?newsid=1539

Sure they do!  We’re running a shareware business, selling our ClipMate program through traditional e-commerce, PayPal, and now, TrialPay. 

TrialPay sends us a check every month, and we could opt for PayPal, bank wire, or direct deposit (ACH). Payments are on the 15th, for the previous month’s sales.  There is a minimum of $100 (more for bank wire and ACH), so if you’re starting slowly, you’ll “roll-over” until you hit the minimum.

Here’s how to edit your preference, in your TrialPay account:

From your dashboard:

My Account

Payment Preferences

Choice of Paper Check, PayPal, Bank Wire, Direct Deposit ACH

As for “how much”, it depends on what offers people sign up for. That varies, but you can set lower limits.  Our product is $34.95, but we’ve set the lower limit a bit lower than that, to give a better variety of offers. TrialPay tries to steer users toward the offers that pay more, so trust them - they’re on your side here. So set the offer level low enough to give most people a chance to find something that they want, without leaving in frustration. You’ll get some that go for the low-paying ones, but then you’ll have some that are in the 20-40 range too, so it all works out.  Of course, there are certain geographic areas that are hopeless, and you can’t really expect more than a couple of bucks, so go with the recommended minimum payment for those areas.  OTOH, we’ve sold a few license in these countries, where I had pretty much given up hope.

Donna Porter at AssociatedContent.Com wrote a nice article:  TrialPay: How I Found a Scam Free Way to Get Free Stuff

It’s a good article, giving a first-hand account about how she bought ZoneAlarm Security Suite for “free” using TrialPay. She usually writes about online scams, so she was looking for trouble.  Her conclusion was that it’s really free, and quite good!

I think I’ll see if I can solicit Testimonials from ClipMate users who have gotten ClipMate for free, using TrialPay.  Usually, when I don’t hear, it’s good news. I’ve only gotten one complaint from and end-user, and he was an impatient type, ordering over a long weekend holiday, and had completed an offer that takes a few days to clear, normally.  (Some offers clear instantly, others, such as credit card sign-ups can take a few days while the advertising merchant processes the order).  According to Donna’s article, such offers make this clear up-front.

Readers coming from Donna’s article will be interested in these links:

I’ve noticed an interesting, and happy trend lately with my TrialPay sales.  The dollar amount per transaction has been increasing.  Where I used to get a lot of $12-$15 orders, the last 5 have all been over $20, with the average being $24.06.  All are US, where my minimum accepted payment is $12. 

I’m not sure if it’s a fluke, or maybe TrialPay is being more clever about steering people toward the offers with higher payouts. Or maybe the payouts themselves have increased?  Or maybe there are more/better offers.

Whatever it is, I hope it continues!