Re: Opinion on on-line payment and banking gateway

Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > I'm not a PHP programmer. I ask this question for a friend of > mine. So I'm not sure if I'm using the correct terms. He's making an > e-commerce website and he doesn't know much about how to validate credit > card, or how to make transactions. What he needs is called "banking > gateway", right? a couple years ago I did some research and while I'm not Sure who the players are right now, I concluded it was not worth the effort. We concluded it was better to subscribe to a credit card clearing service. They provide a basic API that allows you to pass a billing amount to the clearing service who, for a fee or percentage, process the credit card. You never Have to deal with it, they just credit your account and you ship goods.