I did this in a prior life...it was fairly easy since our card processor (Alliance Data Systems) had a product called ads-link that lived on the AIX server (along with Pick database). I just had to pass "strings" of data to it via named pipes, and read same (I'm simplifying). It handled all the back end communications. Check with your provider and see if they have such a tool.
There are still lots of little issues you'll need to work out; i.e. phone line goes down and you have to do manual transactions, customers want to use multiple cards on one transaction, etc. Mark ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 11/15/2005 11:11 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Credit Card Handlers Oh wise ones... We have a competitor at one client that processes credit cards for them with line-item detail of their purchases. I'm not familiar enough with credit card processing to know if doing so via U2 is possible. Currently we have a card swiper in a central location and all cards are processed there. I'd like a solution that would allow our sales team to just type the number in and have things automagically happen, with a verification printed on the forms we currently generate in our 'legacy' U2 application. We aren't using anything other than the text-based green screen application, albeit via nice XP-based PCs (Okay, I'd rather they ran on Linux as I do). [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
