Re: Credit Card transactions

""Hector M Banda"" <hector@need-info.com> wrote > if it's possible to send the transactions via the web. Yes, many companies exist which can do this. For instance, although we aren't a processor ourselves my company has information on our site about credit cards, at www.teamITS.com/internet/credit_cards.html. The company referenced, Innuity (formerly Merchant Commerce; I have to update the site) has a few methods of submitting the transaction. The simplest is to generate a form, which the user fills out and submits to their server. Your form gives their server a response URL, which you can set to a script on your site to display a success/fail message and do whatever else you wish. They handle regular and recurring transactions, and have a GUI for you to make changes or manual sales. I have used their service on sites using Perl and ASP/VBScript, but have not yet had the opportunity to do so with PHP. It would probably be easier. :) There is a link on our site to their documentation for the various transaction methods. The hardest part is generating the payment form using the right variables (and that's not even that hard). Presumably you already have a merchant account which allows Internet transactions, so you only need a payment processor which will interface with your merchant account. My understanding is that virtually all are compatible. -- Steve