Re: payment

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:04:13 -0500, Russ Cobbe (russc@inline.net) > wrote: > >If you are worried about your payment processor going down (which to > >me would be a very serious concern) you might want to look at > >www.opayc.com which is a standardized way to talk to about 30 or so > >payment processors. > > what makes you think that this company is less likely to go under > than a company like cybercash? this isn't a flame, I'm looking for > info. It isn't a payment processor it is an API to payment processors such as CyberCash, Authorize.Net, Signio/Verisign, iBILL etc... Basically you make an SQL call to a driver instead of a database and that makes the call out to the payment processor. The eliminates the complexity in dealing with the payment processors. Sometimes the integration with them is easy and sometimes it is a royal pain. This makes the integration the same for all of them so you simply switch drivers to switch payment processors. You could build a failover system so if the one you mainly use goes down for some reason you could build in logic to switch to another one quite easily. Russ Cobbe President, Inline Internet Systems, Inc. 405 Britannia Road E, Suite 212 Mississauga, ON L4Z 3E2 P: (905) 712 3841 F: (905) 712 2965 http://www.inline.net http://www.ihtml.com Web Application Servers, E-Commerce Solutions