Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Richard Lyman wrote: > > >> bilal ghayyad wrote: >> >>> And is there a bank accept to give such kind of communication? >>> >>> The user was able to dial his card number and the amount from his phone (or >>> IP Phone registered with Asterisk), and Asterisk communicate with the bank >>> or company credit card provider? >>> >>> How the user will enter $50.25? >>> What about expiration date of the credit card? >>> >>> Regards >>> Bilal >>> >>> >> There are already touch tone merchant services available, google 'touchpay'. >> >> To answer your question, yes, dial a number for the processor, enter >> merchant number, enter transaction type, enter amount xxxx (dollars and >> cents, $10 would be 1000), enter exp date (also 4 digits), wait for read >> back of auth number or denial response. >> >> Obviously this is a subject you need to discuss with your >> merchant/processor provider. >> >> > > I think there is a deeper meaning in the question. Bilal, you are missing > a piece of software in the middle. Yes, you can call your processor > directly and enter your merchant code, the CC, the amount, and get an > approval (this is what a cashier will do if their CC machine is down, for > example). I don't think this is what you are looking for. > > Allow me to assume that you have a potential product that you would like > an IVR to accept payment for. You need to write an AGI script or a very > clever dialplan that will prompt the customer for the appropriate > information, then wrap it all up nicely and send it to your processor. > Your AGI or dialplan script will then be able to tell the customer that > the payment was accepted and instructions for delivering the product, or > that it was denied and hang up on them :) > > I'm sure someone has written this AGI already. There are probably pay-for > IVRs you could buy and integrate. You could write it yourself, or pay > someone here on the list to write it for you. Its actually not that > difficult. > > In all cases, however, you will need to make an arrangement with your bakn > to accept credit card payments and get the details for how to send > transactions. There are MANY processors that will accept transactions > over the net using various protocols. I've used IC Verify in the past, > for instance. >
check out www.opayc.com for a generic api that works with many many processors, and looks like an odbc database driver to asterisk/agi etc., also works with gateways where you need a browser on the net as it just emulates that part of things. > Hope this helps, > > j > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
