HIPOLINK - Alternative Payment Method
a year ago


As many of you probably already know. Service Boosty, through which many artists of CIS countries and not only, received payment for their work, on February sixteenth, faced a problem, namely with the inability to receive payment from PayPal.
A significant amount of time has passed, but there is no new information from Boosty. I and many other artists still hope that this problem will be resolved as soon as possible.
Due to this problem and the fact that artists who can not wait (whose lives directly depend on the money received from the sale of their art) and whose customers can not pay on Boosty, have to look for a working, temporary alternative to this service.
As far as I know, at the moment, there are two services that can help us in this situation. One of them is Easystart, and the second one is Hipolink.
For me, I chose Hipolink, if only because it was recommended by Boosty themselves. As far as I know, Hipolink and Boosty are owned by the same people. I don't know whether it's good or bad, and I have absolutely no desire to get involved in their internal affairs, as well as to discuss rumors and theories about them, so let's not talk about it.
Well, the Hipolink service is quite easy to use, although at first it may be perplexing.
For example, when I first went to this service and registered, I did not see the usual opportunity to design my profile. As it turned out, all editing is done through the "constructor", nowhere I have not seen this before, it felt like I entered a free website constructor :))). In principle, a little sitting and poking different buttons, I thinly-barely figured out what there for what is responsible and understood how to make the initial settings.
I don't know how much I did it right, as I started to study it only today and I haven't had time to make any money transactions through this service, so let's see what will happen next.
From the pluses that I can emphasize, it is a fairly simple system of payment, on the part of the seller, you create a block, the so-called "Closed Content" enter the amount that for this content should receive and publish a showcase. You get a link to that showcase, which you discount to the buyer. That's basically it.
From the buyer's side, everything looks quite simple, you follow the link, click on the only button (the inscription on which is customized by the seller) which is there and, in fact, make payment (I do not know what awaits the buyer afterwards, as I have not tested it yet), but I think everything is quite standard.
As far as I know, Boosty also has a similar function of selling posts, but this is what I mark as a plus because it is, in fact, the only function on the service Hipolink and it will be difficult to get confused. Well, and for a fairly simple system with the issuance of a link and payment.
Whether there will be problems with payment and withdrawal of funds is not clear yet. Of course, I hope that they will not be.
Of the minuses, I want to note that the service is extremely raw and have already come across comments from people who have encountered any problems. For example, one person wrote that the system of language translation within the service, does not work quite correctly and the buyer can show something in Russian. Most likely, this is due to the extremely confusing system of displaying the interface. You, as a seller, will be asked to choose the language in which the interface will be displayed to the buyer. Sounds and looks, it is not quite clear, as well as it is not clear why such a system is needed.
That's all I can say and note for you for now. I hope that my and your experience of interaction with this service will be positive! :)
I wish you well and good luck, my dear friend!
