Our site is handling credit cards from all over the world. The only few
gotcha's I can think of are:
* Authorization timeouts are all over the place. Some foriegn banks do
not timeout auth's without bill's for a long time.
* Many foriegn banks do not support the CV number, or address
verification, or both. If cardholders try to contest a transaction, you
can't be sure it was or wasn't them.
* There are groups of people you are not allowed to trade with by law.
Cybersource handles this for us, I think, though you might want to glance
over their docs. This includes the usual N Korea, Libya, etc., and also
specific terrorist orgs. Yes, that's actually come up in management
meetings here (I work for a state university).
Besides that, everything is fairly straightforward. We charge in US
amounts, so I can't help with currency conversion issues, though I know
there are plenty of resources available for that.
Chris
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Haggerty, Mike wrote:
> A client of mine is looking to set up an ecommerce site that accepts
> orders from outside the United States. More specifically, he has a large
> number of clients in places like Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc.
> and is trying to avoid the large fees and wait times that go along with
> using cashiers checks.
>
> I have built numerous ecommerce sites for U.S. and Canadian consumers,
> but have never set up a site aimed at international offices and would
> like to know what kinds of issues we are going to run into. We are
> planning on using Verisign for the payment processing and will be
> offering users the ability to pay with credit cards but not checks or
> debit cards. Outside the technology, I am concerned about things like
> taxes, tariffs, actually collecting address information, etc. - all of
> his orders will be for amounts in excess of $1000.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> M
>
>
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