Bluegirl
02-25-2005, 11:55 PM
So far, I'm not very favorably impressed with Storm Pay's Donation buttons for websites.
Their instructions for opening a Seller account were in plain English until I signed up. They then reverted to technobabble when I went to place a Donations button on my website. I could not understand the directions for entering information in preparation to place the button on my website. There was no reason for this. This could have been written in plain English like the directions to set up an account. When I finally got partly through their directions, I managed to place a Donations button on my website, but it placed four or five column inches of blank space around the button which happens to be space I don't have. It also looks akward.
I thought the button would have the specific amount I asked for (only $2.00 to encourage visitors to donate) on it, but it did not. PayPal has donations buttons with the amounts on them.
I clicked on the donation button to see what would occur. The first thing I saw was a reference to internet fraud. Putting myself in the donor's shoes, I found this chilling. I guess it was intended to scare people into sending their money through StormPay but I feel it will simply have a chilling effect. Not good.
The something else annoying happened. I was was given some false options and my time was wasted. I was asked to log in if I had a Storm Pay account or to pay through a check or credit card if I did not. When I clicked on the credit card option, however, I am told to sign up for Storm Pay. Not acceptable. False, and very annoying. Stop that now.
As I went further into the process I was asked to donate $1.00 for cystic fybrosis. Not only do I not believe that donating money to some large nonprofit will ever get to cystic fibrosis victims, I don't want a competing cause to drain my donor's compassion or to make them think I engineered this grabby request. This is not o.k. Remove it.
That's as far as I've gotten with this, but it doesn't look good.
StormPay, get it together.
Their instructions for opening a Seller account were in plain English until I signed up. They then reverted to technobabble when I went to place a Donations button on my website. I could not understand the directions for entering information in preparation to place the button on my website. There was no reason for this. This could have been written in plain English like the directions to set up an account. When I finally got partly through their directions, I managed to place a Donations button on my website, but it placed four or five column inches of blank space around the button which happens to be space I don't have. It also looks akward.
I thought the button would have the specific amount I asked for (only $2.00 to encourage visitors to donate) on it, but it did not. PayPal has donations buttons with the amounts on them.
I clicked on the donation button to see what would occur. The first thing I saw was a reference to internet fraud. Putting myself in the donor's shoes, I found this chilling. I guess it was intended to scare people into sending their money through StormPay but I feel it will simply have a chilling effect. Not good.
The something else annoying happened. I was was given some false options and my time was wasted. I was asked to log in if I had a Storm Pay account or to pay through a check or credit card if I did not. When I clicked on the credit card option, however, I am told to sign up for Storm Pay. Not acceptable. False, and very annoying. Stop that now.
As I went further into the process I was asked to donate $1.00 for cystic fybrosis. Not only do I not believe that donating money to some large nonprofit will ever get to cystic fibrosis victims, I don't want a competing cause to drain my donor's compassion or to make them think I engineered this grabby request. This is not o.k. Remove it.
That's as far as I've gotten with this, but it doesn't look good.
StormPay, get it together.