A common, impartial place to discuss Drupal related commerce.
Pre-paid, rechargeable accounts
'Micro payments' seem to be a good alternative to generating revenue for various types of sites. For example, a gaming company charges pennies for their users to buy clothing items to decorate their virtual creatures. They have their users pre-pay for these purchases in advance (a $25 pre-payment). Then when a user wants to buy a hat for their character, their account can be debited that amount (maybe $.10). This reduces the costs of processing the micro payments and opens up many new possibilities for revenue generation.
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@ DrupalCon Szeged we decided to create a group for general drupal commerce questions, help, and planning. Alex UA and myself will be co-maintaining the group, however we want this group to be very community led.
I thought a good place to start would be coming up with a better description than the current "A common, impartial place to discuss Drupal related commerce."
What are your thoughts?
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The Future of E-commerce
First of all, thanks to Mike for starting up this group. : )
I want to think about this more in the future, but I thought I'd send out an initial ping as something I want to address in Ubercart beginning with Drupal 7. Basically, my question is what is the future of e-commerce in a semantic web? How can e-commerce change and evolve as we move forward?
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