Hey - - - - - My current web app has an eCommerce aspect, for which we need to do web-based credit card processing.
I have found this process among the most frustrating of my professional life. The processing company has been as unresponsive beyond belief. It has taken us *months* just to get a vendor ID, and their technical folks have yet to get me basic technical information, much less sample code. This is with a vendor with which my client has a long-term and *exclusive* agreement, so it is not like they are still checking out their mutual credit ratings. For some reason, e needed a separate vendor ID for the department with which I'm working. Another developer suggested we use a "gateway" company. That these companies already have 'copy-and-paste" code in PHP, and are certified already to interact with the CC processor companies, including the one with which I must work. He portrayed the certification process (by which the bank says I am technically OK, encrypting what i need to encrypt, passing the right values at the right time, etc.) as taking 3 - 6 *months.* Anybody out there have experience with interacting with CC processing companies? Gateway providers? Our Processor: Chase PaymenTech? Advice, real-world experience (and the usual WAGs) appreciated. Ken _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/436a796c-8876-4909-a935-372822a2b...@information-architecture.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
