Ecommerce site using Microsoft Access?? 2

[jeevenze]

I'm building an ecommerce site using Microsoft access. This is my first ecommerce site and it's basically built, (created it by reading Ultradev tutorials) and it's essentially very basic. I was just wondering how I go about integrating verifying credit card information on my shopping cart function?
Any help or info is much appreciated.

Jeevenze

 

[JHoarty]

Kind of depends on what you mean by "verifying". That is, if you just want to do form validation to the point where you filter out completely bogus credit card numbers (i.e., made-up numbers), I believe there are javascripts out there that can run those algoorythms for you and check the numbers. On the other hand, if you mean you want to actually check the creditworthiness of the entered card, and ensure that it isn't stolen, etc., then you basically want to interface your cart with one of a number of online credit card processors, like CyberCash or AuthorizeNet.

Are you using asp, jsp or Cold Fusion to interface with the Access database?

If Cold Fusion, there are a number of custom tags to handle either scenario (validating just the number itself, or the actual card against the transaction). Go to

http://www.allaire.com,

click on "Developer" and go to "Developers Exchage"/"Custom Tags" and search on "credit card".

Hope this helps. John Hoarty
jhoarty@quickestore.com

http://www.quickestore.com