On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Richard Huxton <d...@archonet.com> wrote:
> > If you have a business e.g. selling books or train tickets or some such > then you might decide it's better to have a simpler more robust setup from > the point of view of providing continuous service to end-customers. In the > (hopefully rare) event of a crash irreparably losing some transactions > apologise to your customers and recompense them generously. > Unfortunately you probably no longer know who to apologize to, what for, or how much to compensate them! I guess when you reconcile your cc credits from the cc company recorded in their system to the sales in your recovered system, you will have evidence of the discrepancies. Now I can't use an ecommerce without pondering all the ways something can go wrong, and how to minimize/address them. Cheers, Jeff
