Re: Card clearance, problems - solutions?
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numero = 14104
interpreted = N
texte = Grant Hulbert wrote at 23/10/97 6:23 pm>>Has anyone had experience of getting a machine other than their webcat >>box to process card transactions. I'm thinking in terms of webcat running >>on a Mac, and doing the clearance on a PC or NT machine, or perhaps >>better (worse?) running a Windows emulator on the Mac? > >It all depends on whether or not ICVerify will work in the UK.I think that it does, though I'll have to check with my clearance house.> >We have a customer who uses a Mac to take the orders, and a DEC Alpha >(running WebMerchant) to run the cards, so I know it's possible. >WebMerchant/NT uses the same order file format as WebMarchant/Mac (which >is the same as WebCatalog's shopping cart file), so I imagine you could >set up a shared folder on the NT box that the Mac could drop order files >into, and the WebMerchant/NT could tell ICVerify to run the card.At that stage I'm well into NT heaven, which is somewhere I don't really want to be, I've seen the aggro our NT expert goes through, I don't need that.The only other solution I've seen for the UK is via something called netbanx (www.netbanx.com), it seems likely that a cgi could be written to interface with their system, but I really don't like their commission charges, 4% over the credit card company, that more than doubles my current costs. -- Clive
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Grant Hulbert wrote at 23/10/97 6:23 pm>>Has anyone had experience of getting a machine other than their webcat >>box to process card transactions. I'm thinking in terms of webcat running >>on a Mac, and doing the clearance on a PC or NT machine, or perhaps >>better (worse?) running a Windows emulator on the Mac? > >It all depends on whether or not ICVerify will work in the UK.I think that it does, though I'll have to check with my clearance house.> >We have a customer who uses a Mac to take the orders, and a DEC Alpha >(running WebMerchant) to run the cards, so I know it's possible. >WebMerchant/NT uses the same
order file format as WebMarchant/Mac (which >is the same as WebCatalog's shopping cart file), so I imagine you could >set up a shared folder on the NT box that the Mac could drop
order files >into, and the WebMerchant/NT could tell ICVerify to run the card.At that stage I'm well into NT heaven, which is somewhere I don't really want to be, I've seen the aggro our NT expert goes through, I don't need that.The only other solution I've seen for the UK is via something called netbanx (www.netbanx.com), it seems likely that a cgi could be written to interface with their system, but I really don't like their commission charges, 4% over the credit card company, that more than doubles my current costs. -- Clive
Clive Bruton
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