[Gllug] OT: Online Payment Processing

[Tushar Joshi]

Yeah I have to agree world pay's system is just junk. 
I've had lots of problems with it especially with 
the call backs.

Now if you want a good payment gateway try using
protx. They do require you have a merchant account though, 
but I'm using libcurl+openssl to communicate with them
and you can configure call back urls per request and a whole
host of other things. It's also transparent so they don't
get redirected to another site. They use some basic level
of encryption (I mean basic) on the protx server package. 
It just means it's harder for people to change form values 
before it gets sent to protx. 

With VSP Direct it's all syncronous which makes life easier. 

Tushar

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:50:31PM +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Doug Winter wrote:
> 
> > As part of changing our platforms, we've got to rewrite our payment
> > handling.  We previously (for reasons that never became entirely clear
> > to me) used Worldpay who have the most difficult and convoluted payment
> > process ever.
> 
> That's so convoluted about WorldPay's system?
> 
> I'm using Worldpay's Select Junior and it is trivially easy.
> 
> Similar methods are available from a number of other providers including 
> Protx, DataCase (who are often recommended), Verisign, and others.
> 
> Then if you prefer to handle the payment processing as a back end process 
> rather than sending the user to the processors site for handling you can 
> use any processor you like however Datacash are again often recommended.
> 
> I have to say I am using WorldPay and I'm happy enough with them.
> 
> > So I'm looking to change provider.  I want some way of processing credit
> > card payments that is as simple as possible.  I don't want to run any of
> > their code, I just want a nice simple interface.  Ideally I'd like to
> > have multiple billing lines with different text appearing on punter's
> > bills too, as we host multiple different services.
> 
> Isn't that just a matter of printing an "invoice" to a webpage with a link 
> to pay it?
> 
> Jason Clifford
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