RE: Credit card verification

2005-10-26 Thread Stacy Young
May also depend on the clearing network and card type with regards to how long an authorization is held. Cheers, Stace -Original Message- From: Jann E. VanOver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Credit card verification Anyone

Re: Credit card verification

2005-10-26 Thread Jann E. VanOver
Anyone who is doing this kind of work -- make sure you read all the details available from your Gateway provider. I work with Verisign & PayFlowPro and, according to their docs, when you do this kind of "authorize" it DOES place a hold on the funds. Then, depending on whether you VOID or CRED

Re: Credit card verification

2005-10-25 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Well, we use AVS (address verification service) and CVV. All of our transactions are checked for validity prior to an order being placed. These services (and more) should all be offered to you as standard with any transaction processor. We use GlobalCollect btw. N "This e-mail is from

RE: Credit card verification

2005-10-24 Thread Justin D. Scott
> and we can't get it back up till we talk to > people in Florida. Guess what's in Florida > now. :) For Sarasota County, a day off. We had slight winds through the night with occasional power outages (which are now all corrected) but no damage to speak of. As a precaution, everyone pretty much

Re: Credit card verification

2005-10-24 Thread Bryan Stevenson
yep it's called a pre-authorization in the bricks and mortar worldI'm pretty sure you can do it for online payments as well (and yes there will most likley be a Tx fee just for pre-auth). HTH Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group

Re: Credit card verification

2005-10-24 Thread Michael Dinowitz
That's what we were doing with linkpoint, but they've screwed up the account and we can't get it back up till we talk to people in Florida. Guess what's in Florida now. :) I was hoping that someone had done authorizations using paypal so I don't have to dig too deep. Guess I'll have to. > You

RE: Credit card verification

2005-10-24 Thread Raster, Tim
We use Verisign's Payflow system. It gives you a flag with which you can do a "test" run of the card without actually processing it. Another option (which we don't do) is to allow you to mark off $ against the account temporarily in an "authorization" step. Here you claim that you are about to c

RE: Credit card verification

2005-10-24 Thread Adkins, Randy
Message- From: Spike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 1:36 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Credit card verification Most decent modern payment gateways will allow you to do this. Do you have any particular requirements for what type of payment gateway you need to use? Spike

Re: Credit card verification

2005-10-24 Thread John C. Bland II
Not sure how you're implementing this but couldn't you just Authorize a penny or something on the card and use AVS (address verification) to check? On 10/24/05, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to verify that a credit card exists and is assigned to a > person short of

Re: Credit card verification

2005-10-24 Thread Barney Boisvert
You should be able to just authorize a dollar (with a short timespan, if possible), and never use it. cheers, barneyb On 10/24/05, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to verify that a credit card exists and is assigned to a > person short of charging them? In the past we

RE: Credit card verification

2005-10-24 Thread Matthew Small
You should be able to "authorize" the charge. This is typically done at gas stations - they authorize up to $75, then cancel the transaction. It should never show up unless you actually charge the amount or if you forget to remove the authorization. Matthew Small Web Developer American City Bu

Re: Credit card verification

2005-10-24 Thread Spike
Most decent modern payment gateways will allow you to do this. Do you have any particular requirements for what type of payment gateway you need to use? Spike On 10/24/05, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to verify that a credit card exists and is assigned to a > pe