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Posted by Nate Lyman on 10/30/06 20:29
authorize.net is really easy to get setup just use PHP and the CURL library.
-Nate
<readmy@otherlips.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1faffdb09b953e57989929@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk...
> In article <301020060217267290%gamma@coldmail.com>, gamma@coldmail.com
> says...
>> Koncept, let me cover another aspect. The fellows in here were very
>> helpful when I posted a question so now it's my turn to give something
>> back.
>>
>> I run pay-to-view web sites which is another way of saying I run
>> e-commerce sites.
>>
>> You ask what is the best way to implement a payment system. This will
>> be your biggest headache.
>>
>> When I set up my first PTV site, I was back in my native New Zealand.
>> (These days, I'm in the northern hemisphere.) I was the first person in
>> New Zealand to receive permission to transact credit cards online. My
>> bank and the card companies invited me in for coffee, it was a sort of
>> mini-celebrity thing. Wow how times have changed!
>>
>> Starting last year and continuing today, the card companies have been
>> introducing new protocols for card-not-present transactions. This has
>> caused and continues to cause major disruption, inconvenience and
>> frustration to webmasters.
>>
>> For many industries, it can now be difficult or impossible to structyre
>> a payment system. Oh, there are many (hundreds. Thousands!) of web
>> sites that proclaim "we can have you online in 48 hours." Bullshit!
>>
>> Here is my advice on how to get a contract with a payment gateway, as
>> painlessly as possible.
>>
>> You should put your site online first. A site that is "under
>> construction" or offline, will not be given much consideration.
>>
>> Make sure you have a checking account with a regular bank. Ask them
>> will they offer you a merchant account.
>>
>> Set up a simple spreadsheet. You will want to keep an easy-to-use
>> record.
>>
>> Do a google for "payment gateway". Start the long boring process of
>> visiting a site, reading what they offer, entering details in your
>> spreadsheet for future reference and posibly applying for an account.
>>
>> 50% of the sites you visit will be just agents for Authorise.net.
>> Another 25% will be bullshit sites that want to sell you some expensive
>> software < the sort of software your correspondents wee discussing
>> above. Another 20% will be thieves, out of business or whatever. The
>> nuggess, that last 5% you will follow up on.
>>
>> Many many industries will not be well-received. Some make sense, others
>> do not. Read the exclusion list before wasting your time replying to a
>> gateway that does not want your business.
>
>
> Alternatively he could just join paypal and be accepting credit cards
> within the hour?
>
> I think the original question was a bit more complex and I'd have to
> agree with comments made by previous respondents however.
>
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