Gedanken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2 Jul 2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > Any obvious choices for a relatively small-scale e-commerce payment > processing system for a server running apache / mod_perl? > > There are a few 'clearing house' type services to which one can subscribe > that do the actual cybercash-type transaction for you. it can be > expensive and prohibitively complicated to set up the services yourself.
Yes, that's what I've been half-expecting. [snip] > I can only imagine that the number of such services has proliferated since > then, but i havent checked lately. ive been out of e-commerce since 2000. > Ive had a devil of a time running the cybercash (and similar) services for > myself as every option seemed to be expensive, buggy, or lacking on > customer support when the end customer inevitably asked questions i > couldnt answer. maybe they have improved in the last 2 years, butfiring > it off to someone else (the classic SEP or 'somebody elses problem' theorem), > waiting for a nice pleasant order > number to be returned over ssl, and printing it to the screen branded as > if my site did it all by itself is worth a small charge per transaction > that youre going to end up paying anyway even if you do it all yourself. I'm hoping I can sell the client this idea; it certainly matches *my* idea of "easier". > Do you have a particular company doing your order fulfillment? If so, > they may have such an arrangement or service already in place. a lot i > ran into did. New client (not hooked yet), but I don't believe they're likely to have anything in place from what I know so far. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED] / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info
