I'm in the process of setting up a handicapping site for sports betting which provides users with daily picks on a range of games. One of the biggest issues is being able to provide the customer with a quick payment option and giving them the ability to receive the pick within seconds of making the payment.

So I wanted to ask the experts on this board what would be a good option of doing this? Lets say for example, I have a third-party that accepts the payment than redirects the user to pick of the day without giving access to random people but only to people that just paid...

Also, what would be some reputable companies to go through in order to do so? And do they provide solutions in order for me to make this possible?

PayPal's Instant Payment Notification (IPN) is one of many solutions that would help to pretty easily facilitate this -- see https://www.paypal.com/ipn for more details. It would be up to you to do some server-side scripting, but the work would be minimal.

As a quick note, be sure that the payment processor that you choose allows you to sell your "daily picks" access through them. I know that you're not allowing your customers to place bets directly, but I'm not sure how gambling-related sites are viewed by the payment processors.

Good luck.

-mike