OK.... I know this is a little off-topic but you are all so smart!
I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in getting a merchant account setup so one of my commercial sites can process credit card payments. What are the first steps I should take?
If you're looking for something *nix based that you can call with your own program (kind of like an api) and get results back to your program then I know of one good affordable solution (most are not reasonably priced). From what our programmers told me, you can interface to it with perl and other languages -- the company supplies example code.
We searched for a long time to find something reasonably priced due to how few credit cards we actually process. Most companies want thousands of dollars and are java based plus annual maintenance. I think the company they found was $800 or so (I think). Of course, you would then need a merchant account with someone to use this software with (maybe even them) but they are certified.
Anyway, if you're interested email me directly and I'll talk to our programmers and find out who the company is.
Chris
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