Re: question: webmerchant connection

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 12593
interpreted = N
texte = >1. Purchase is pushed >2. Order goes into orders folder >3. (every 10 seconds) webmerch will check the orders folder >4. Macauth clears or does not clear the card >5. Thankyou.tmpl is displayed to the buyer. > Or Sorry page is given to the buyer. > >I just want to make sure that between 1 and 4 that the buyer is kept >waiting on the invoice page until the thankyou.tmpl page, sorry page is >displayed.No, that's not how it works. We purposely designed it to be independant of how slowly the credit card authorization happens. If you have 2 or more credit cards being run simultaneously, the amount of time a person has to wait grows to many minutes. Here's the true sequence:1. WebCat: Purchase is pushed 2. WebCat: Order goes into orders folder 3. WebCat: immediately displays ThankYou.tmpl 4. WebMerch: (every 10 seconds) webmerch will check the orders folder 5. Macauth clears or does not clear the card 6. WebMerch: Thank You *email* is sent to the buyer. WebMerch: Or Sorry page is sent to the buyer. WebMerch: [cart].html file is written to WebDelivery folderYou can re-word the ThankYou.tmpl page to say Your card is being processed. Click here in a minute to download the products you ordered.And you can put a meta refresh tag on the thankyou page to automatically move forward to the webdelivery page with no user input. Some people also put a [WriteFile] context onto the thankyou.tmpl page that writes a little message into the WebDelivery folder so that visitors can tell what stage the order process is in:-- ThankYou.tmpl -- [WriteFile /WebCatalog/WebMerchant/WebDelivery/[cart].html]Your order has not been cleared with the credit card processor yet[/WriteFile]Then when WebMerchant finally gets an authorization from MacAuthorize, it will overwrite that file with its own message telling them where to pick up the product.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ===== Tools for WebWarriors ===== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog Pro, WebCommerce Solution 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, SiteCheck, PhotoMaster San Diego, CA 92128 | SiteGuard 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: question: webmerchant connection (Grant Hulbert 1997)
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>1. Purchase is pushed >2. Order goes into orders folder >3. (every 10 seconds) webmerch will check the orders folder >4. Macauth clears or does not clear the card >5. Thankyou.tmpl is displayed to the buyer. > Or Sorry page is given to the buyer. > >I just want to make sure that between 1 and 4 that the buyer is kept >waiting on the invoice page until the thankyou.tmpl page, sorry page is >displayed.No, that's not how it works. We purposely designed it to be independant of how slowly the credit card authorization happens. If you have 2 or more credit cards being run simultaneously, the amount of time a person has to wait grows to many minutes. Here's the true sequence:1. WebCat: Purchase is pushed 2. WebCat: Order goes into orders folder 3. WebCat: immediately displays ThankYou.tmpl 4. WebMerch: (every 10 seconds) webmerch will check the orders folder 5. Macauth clears or does not clear the card 6. WebMerch: Thank You *email* is sent to the buyer. WebMerch: Or Sorry page is sent to the buyer. WebMerch: [cart].html file is written to WebDelivery folderYou can re-word the ThankYou.tmpl page to say Your card is being processed. Click [cart].html>here in a minute to download the products you ordered.And you can put a meta refresh tag on the thankyou page to automatically move forward to the webdelivery page with no user input. Some people also put a [writefile] context onto the thankyou.tmpl page that writes a little message into the WebDelivery folder so that visitors can tell what stage the order process is in:-- ThankYou.tmpl -- [WriteFile /WebCatalog/WebMerchant/WebDelivery/[cart].html]Your order has not been cleared with the credit card processor yet[/WriteFile]Then when WebMerchant finally gets an authorization from MacAuthorize, it will overwrite that file with its own message telling them where to pick up the product.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ===== Tools for WebWarriors ===== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog Pro, WebCommerce Solution 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, SiteCheck, PhotoMaster San Diego, CA 92128 | SiteGuard 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com Grant Hulbert

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