Re: [mv] Multiple Customer Name Fields and Cybercash

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

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At 02:28 PM 7/31/00 , you wrote:
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>Hello,
>
>We've added an order logging feature to our store to facilitate 
>integration with
>our in-office inventory and order processing.  It takes the data from the
>receipt and logs it to a flat-text database.
>
>Something which our consultant is requesting, however, is the use of separate
>fields for first, middle, and last names, rather than a single field for the
>full name.  This isn't a problem to implement as far as getting it to log
>properly and look nice and all -- it's just a matter of adding more fields and
>processing them appropriately.
>
>Before I go ahead with this, though, I am wondering if splitting up the name
>would cause any problems with any of the backend operation of Minivend --
>specifically with Cybercash.  My understanding of credit card verification is
>that the cardholder name is required as well as the number and expiration 
>date.
>If for example we use the 'name' field for the first name, 'middle' for the
>middle, and 'last' for the last name, we would only be verifying with the 
>first
>name.

I don't think that Cybercash actually does any testing against the name -- 
however, you would really want to send Cybercash the full name string.  I 
would suggest not using "name" as the first name, rather use "first", then 
send Cybercash  name = first + middle + last.

Worst case scenario... just send Cybercash the last name. :-)

Even the expiration date isn't "matched" to anything, it simply checks to 
see if the date entered is in the future.


>Am I correct in my assumption?  An obvious solution to this would be to use
>'name' as a special Cardholder's Name field, with something else entirely for
>the billing names, but I'd like to keep things as simple as possible.  Or 
>are my
>concerns unfounded?
>
>Thanks,
>
>
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>
>Jason Yu (jyu@worldwatch.org)
>Worldwatch Institute
>http://www.worldwatch.org/
>
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