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Re: Lessons learnt from dealing with a rogue startup employee in India

Zaakpay — Fri, 11 May 2012 03:31:13 -0000

Thanks for sharing your story Sushrut. I think its fair for people to move on to newer opportunities but I just dont get it why they cant leave properly! Are we Indians an uncivilized lot when it comes to professional ethics?

Re: Lessons learnt from dealing with a rogue startup employee in India

Sushrut Bidwai — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:24:25 -0000

Sharing story about an employee at my startup - This guys did not have a degree, was an excellent programmer and hence I hired him. For 2 years he worked with me on various things. During that time he took long leaves to get a degree, clear papers and we supported him no matter what. Never prioritized against his education. He finally got his degree in march 11 2011. After that he took 3 days unplanned leave, gave 4 interviews in Pune got a job offer. On 18th march he came to office and said he wants to resign and that today should be his last date. We were supposed to go live with prolinkd in 2 more days and he was responsible for entire front end. I asked him to postpone last day by at least a week and he said his new employer wont let him join unless he took speech therapy classes which begin in couple of days.

So we hired a guy, who did not have a degree, extremely poor academics and plus stammering problem, just because we only look for good programming skills. And this is how we were repaid. Welcome back to India. :)

Re: Why PayPal does not work for Indian eCommerce merchants?

Ankit — Sat, 05 May 2012 03:24:08 -0000

ZaakPay is much better than CCAvenue, EBS, BillDesk etc. First of all, ZaakPay supports recurring billing (bread and butter of a SaaS company), secondly they are easier to integrate than others like ICICI, CitiBank etc., and third they are very low cost. In fact, I was willing to pay much higher to ZaakPay. Rs. 500/month is almost nothing. I intend to use ChargeBee with ZaapKey this month.

Re: How do I get started with Webpay?

credit card payment terminal — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:34:04 -0000

webpay is the best options for payment

Re: How do I get started with Webpay?

Uday K — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:39:07 -0000

Excellent effort

Re: Why PayPal does not work for Indian eCommerce merchants?

Upasana Taku — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:59:15 -0000

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Re: Who are women entrepreneurs?

Upasana Taku — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:55:51 -0000

Agree with you reservation is supposed to help those who did not start on the starting line. However, when it comes to implementing policy it does not pan out as imagined. I dont have to look far. After the 1989-90 violence in J&K, many Kashmiri Pandit families migrated to other parts of India. Maharashtra state came up with a reservation policy for college admissions to benefit Kashmiri migrant students. I know at the least a hundred Kashmiris who were not migrants (were residing prosperously in other parts of India before the violence in J&K began) who went to Jammu to get a migrant certificate and then studied on the migrant quota college seat. Any reservation policy that has ever been tried has always been misused.

Re: Who are women entrepreneurs?

Akhil HAndoo — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:20:07 -0000

On your idea of reservation :
Reservation is meant to push/empower the weak. It is meant to help someone who did not start on the starting line, rather behind it. In this regard, it is only fair.
But when the basis of reservation cannot be justified or is twisted or incorrect, we begin to see problems of all sorts.

Re: Why PayPal does not work for Indian eCommerce merchants?

aed — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:56:09 -0000

How Can I accept payments from Indian clients? Most of my clients have a credit card but they say that it is not accepted by PayPal. What other payment processors can I use?

Re: What do I need to submit a card application ?

Upasana Taku — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:15:31 -0000

We need to know that every application is a serious business with revenue potential both for the business and us. We also need to know that the founding team for a startup is going to stick around and not shut shop sometime soon leaving us to pay off their chargebacks :)

Re: How do I get started with Webpay?

Credit Card Processing — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:03:07 -0000

I've heard many great things about WebPay and knowing that submitting application costs nothing is great.

Re: What do I need to submit a card application ?

Bhavya — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:47:50 -0000

everything else is fine. I would have apprehensions against sharing the forecasts. Is it mandatory?

Re: What do I need to submit a card application ?

N_atma — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:01:41 -0000

Congrats Upsana. Excellent Service for India.

Cheers
Naresh

Re: What do I need to submit a card application ?

truck driving training — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:45:04 -0000

Thanks

Re: What do I need to submit a card application ?

Rewards Credit Cards — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:14:59 -0000

Thanks for the information. I was also planning to take a cardfor myself but, confused with so many formalities and paper work. Now I can first arrange all the documents and get the card in one go.

Re: Zaakpay is moving money! Zero transaction charges till July 1, 2011

Peterson — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:23:57 -0000

I just wanted to comment your blog and say that I really
enjoyed reading your blog post here. It was very informative. Keep it up and
I’ll be back to read more soon.

Re: Experience as an Intern at Zaakpay

RealEstateDealStreet — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:19:58 -0000

Nice post! we will also implement it at www.realestatedealstreet.com and opt for your payment gateway services.

Re: Online Payments Ecosystem & Payments in India

RealEstateDealStreet — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:23:09 -0000

I have small start up www.RealEstateDealStreet.com got rejected by banks twice.I think that their risk department thinks we are risky client due to our small set up and their lace of knowledge to understand the risk involved. I m now even told them that pay me only after it is clear that now customer can't raise any dispute but it is not helping either.What should I do?

Re: Online Payments Ecosystem & Payments in India

Rita Dhawan — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:38:50 -0000

Hey Upasana.....had to look this up after your post on fb. Now I understand the commotion these past few months. Bt first things first...CONGRATULATIONS...feel pretty proud :)

Re: Zaakpay is moving money! Zero transaction charges till July 1, 2011

Devi — Tue, 31 May 2011 04:08:59 -0000

Congrats mam :) All the best for ur future endeavors :)

Re: Zaakpay is moving money! Zero transaction charges till July 1, 2011

Albert — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:00:09 -0000

This is great news for me. Thanks for this alternative payment system in India. Hope you will extend this for worldwide payments.

All the best! :)

Re: Online Payments Ecosystem & Payments in India

Aditya Babbar — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:02:22 -0000

Upasana

All I can is, this is so insightful. Sad but true, the control is with a few players who seem to be too busy growing fat with arbitrage margins and providing what I can safely term as "Non Customer Service". If you are a Merchant, this is a headache and lord only knows how long before you get approved to accept payments.

The other thing is that the market we operate (ecommerce & electronic payments) in is about as mature as 1984. Both by way of merchants and by the Payment Gateway space.

The need for nimble and sharp firms to tackle the payment space is dire. Not just for us, but for the burgeoning SMB sector of India, heck even most of the large corporations.

All I can is, this is going to be a fun time and would be by far the best time to be present in this space.

Here's wishing you the very best and lets do something fantastic.

Regards

Aditya
www.billbharo.com

Re: Why PayPal does not work for Indian eCommerce merchants?

Tarun — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:06:49 -0000

Hi Ravi,

You haven't happened to have heard of digital signatures have you ?

Re: Why PayPal does not work for Indian eCommerce merchants?

International Payment — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:09:45 -0000

There are many systems, not just paypal, that are not geared up for countries like India. I use a lot of Indian workers and often paying them by paypal is an issue.

Re: Why PayPal does not work for Indian eCommerce merchants?

Ravi — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:28:44 -0000

Upasana,

Sorry to inform you that you will not be able to go completely online and paperless in merchant signup process. That is simply not possible under current indian laws. This is the reason sites like CCAvenue have elaborate signup 'paperful' step, that includes signing stamp papers, and providing company documentation.

What are your thoughts on this.