FileShoppe - With instant payouts! Not your typical file host

[foxman]

Carrotpay?

[akrep]

no paypal ?

[FShoppe]

Users can pay with Paypal through the CarrotPay gateway. However payments are recieved by us, and by uploaders, in a CarrotPay merchant account. The funds can then be withdrawn to paypal if you wish.

As mentioned in our first post, we use CarrotPay for the following reasons.

1. Non reversable payments. This means we can GAURANTEE instant payout on every premium download. It is not possible to do this with Paypal.

2. Low fees of just 5%. Since transaction values can be as low as $0.01, a 5% charge is the lowest in the market. In order for Paypal to even come close to being competitive, transactions would need to be in excess of $10.

3. Split payments. We use CarrotPay's split payment facility so that funds are recieved DIRECTLY into your merchant account. When a downloader pays, you recieve it directly from them, and not from us. We never hold you money, and why should we? It's you money!

4. You can withdraw to your Paypal or bank account from CarrotPay if you like. I am told that CarrotPay will soon add other methods of top-up and withdraw to make things more flexible.

[operauser]

I can't even register an acc
Gives you 'You must enter a valid CarrotPay merchant ID.'
And i do have valid ID via Facebook.

[FShoppe]

What is your merchant ID? It is not the same as your Facebook email... Your merchant ID should look like: DHFD-HFGD-JDHF-KJLD

And by that I mean 16 charachters. You can enter it with or without the '-'

[foxman]

You have a very complex system mate? Cant understand it. Can give a scenario?.

[dreammagic]

Seems so interesting in my mind.
@foxman : The system works just like the supermarket.You upload a file, and define the price for it, example $1 for a pdf, you received 40 cents and fileshoppe got 60 cents.Correct me if I'm wrong

[FShoppe]

How do you mean complex? It is actually very simple! At least, we think so.

We have a simple fee structure, which is $0.01 per 100MB ($0.10 per GB) with a minimum charge of $0.01.

Example:

1MB file = $0.01
10MB file = $0.01
100MB file = $0.01
1GB file = $0.10

We also alow for fractions of a cent.

So 350MB = $0.035
1.05GB = 1050MB = $0.105

These are OUR fees.

Imagine you are content provider (uploader). If you upload a file and set a price of $0. The file will be freely available to downloaders, just as you see with normal file hosts now. However, the downloader will have the option to download using the premium service using the above fee structure. Content providers will recieve 20% of the value of the sale. Meaning $0.01 sale will result in the content provider recieving $0.002.

However, we allow content providers to set a price on their files. So if you set a price of $1.00 on a 1GB file, you will recieve $0.90. However, in doing so, FREE download becomes unavailable for that file.

It does get MORE complicated with our 'sharer' scheme, but this is not fully released yet.

If you require further clarification, please let us know!

[foxman]

Ok, Now I am understanding it, quite unique I must say.

[filegrasper]

I am on it!