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Hi! I would like to charge my customers for live video. I do coaching/consultation for small businesses and I want to be available to them for however long they choose, but I want to be paid for it up front.

I was thinking about using a "point" based system on my website that would allow for a certain dollar amount to be equivalent to one point. Then each minute removes one point from their balance. That way they could buy multiple minutes and use them on multiple sessions.

Does that seem at all realistic? I would be using PHP MySQL for the database and customer file. How do you all think I should go about allowing my customers to pay me by the minute for streaming video?

Ryan
therawdata.net
therawdata@gmail.com

We don't really have any way to track "points" from our end, but you might be able to rig something up at your end, using our Integration and/or Redirection features:
http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.integration.htm
http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.redirection.htm

How would you recommend charging for streaming video?

If you use our Redirection feature to send the buyer to your streaming-video URL after their payment is completed, we append some order data to your URL including the Transaction ID.

If you also use our Integration to send a fuller set of order data to a custom script on your backend, that would tell how much the buyer paid, what unit quantity they paid for which items, etc.

Thus, when the buyer arrives at your streaming-video page, some custom scripting in your page could grab the txn_id value from its own URL and use that to lookup the other data for that transaction that you'd received in your own database via our Integration, to determine much the buyer paid or how many time units they purchased, so the scripting in your page could show the video for only however much time they'd purchased.