Re: [mv] Credit Card Processing in UK

[delionsweb - minivend <minivend@delionsweb.net>]

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Hi Steve,

I share your pain although our circumstances differ. ;-)
I have to set up payment processing for a store using a gateway offered by 
AccessPoint (http://www.apc.net/).
I have some experience with Authorize.Net and Signio (Now Verisign Payment 
something...)

So what's my point:
I am going to approach the whole thing conceptually and deal with the 
details only when I absolutely have to.
It seems that these payment services pretty much fall into two camps:
CyberCash and the rest ;-)
Why? Cybercash seems to use some local programs to do some of the work and 
the others use CGI-like scripts to which you pass 'form' variables.
So first you decide which group your target gateway falls into and then you 
understand how that groups is handled in Interchange / Minivend. There are 
hints/ examples and help in the mail archives from people that have 
successfully set up CyberCash and also Authorize.Net and Signio so both 
groups are covered as 'done that' ...

For the non-Cybercash group it seems there are three stages in the processing:
- Map the IC payment info collected in the checkout process to the form 
variables of the specific service
- Post / send this to some processing gateway URL
- Receive the response and analyze and act.

Anyway, I am probably not breaking any new ground but those are my thoughts 
on approaching it over here ...

At 08:10 AM 11/22/2000, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from Stephen Ricketts 
><steve@jellybeanmedia.co.uk>     ******
>
>I have just come to the end of building my first MiniVend site, which has
>taken a long time and a lot of blood sweat and tears! Unfortunately though I
>have now been asked to set it up for real-time Credit Card Processing. From
>the documentation it looks like I should use CyberCash, this however is a US
>Company and as I am in the UK I was hoping to use a UK based banking Company
>as I thought that this would be easier in the long run!
>Is there any advise that anyone could give me on setting this up with a UK
>company such as: Netbanx or WorldPay?
>Alternatively, am I worrying about nothing? or has anyone got any other
>solutions that they have used themselves and could recommend?
>
>Many thanks
>
>Steve
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