Ecommerce site using Microsoft Access?? 3

[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

 

[Zelandakh]

You can link directly into the worldpay system

http://www.worldpay.com

I think tells you how to do that. But you pay for it.

The only way to do it internally is to use the parser routines to check the number is the right length and fit - it is 16 characters and starts with 4027 and has a twelfth digit that is the sum of the previous 8 or whatever. There are validity checks for all major card types.

 

[chiph]

Jeevenze -

You can do a web search on "Merchant Account" to find a lot of companies who will process credit cards for you. Shop around, as their charges can vary quite a bit.

If you don't need immediate processing of charges, you can buy a separate point-of-sale terminal. Sam's warehouse club sells them.

Chip H.

 

[bra1niac]

We wrote one that uses authorize.net

No advantage to it that I know of. I was able to process the customer's CC sort of behind the scenes so it looked like we were actually doing it.

There are so many different ways and even more companies willing to setup merchant accounts for ya.

Good luck. "Absorb what is useful, discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own." - Bruce Lee - The Tao of Jeet Kune Do

 

[chiph]

Zelandakh -

A friend has a eCommerce site (

http://www.guitar9.com),

and he's had to add address verification routines. There's this one guy in Singapore who keeps trying to scam him with stolen credit cards. He lost a $150 order to him the first time, and ever since then he's kept an eye out for him.

The address verification routines require that the customer supply you with an address (presumably where the bill gets sent), and you send it to the card processor along with the number and expiration date. They send you back a confidence percentage (0% = stolen, 99% = should be OK), and you decide whether to accept the charge or void the transaction based on what percentage you feel comfortable with.

Chip H.