Hey Matt, if it's low volume like you said how often, if ever, do you have sales occurring in parallel? Even if you do have to lock the items in the order for a moment or two is it ever/often going to affect other people's transactions?
Also, what evidence do you have that people aren't buying because they don't trust the checkout process? I personally prefer to always handle transactions myself. Perhaps you could just work on establishing/building trust? On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Matthew Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > > I've used ipn on another site, There was a delay of more than a few > seconds > for the notification once the transaction was complete. Also, the user has > to go to paypal, log in, etc, which could take several minutes. I need it > to happen on the backside completely so I don't wait on the users. They > could begin to check out and decide to go somewhere for a few minutes, > which > would lock the checkout process. > > I was hoping there was something more available. > > Thank you though. > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Paypal uses their IPN system which is an instant? payment notification. > > You set up your account to use IPN. Then, when you redirect to paypal, > ou > > include an IPN address which is a page on your site. When the payment > > posts through paypal, that page will be called with the transaction id > and > > all the pertinent information from your order. > > > > > > On Mar 7, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Matthew Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > We have an artist site selling unique and limited quantity items. > During > > > the checkout process, I do a named lock, check to be sure the > quantities > > for > > > the items haven't changed due to a sale or something else, charge the > > credit > > > card, then commit the order to the db. > > > > > > I think our sales are hurt because people don't know us well enough to > > trust > > > us with their credit card numbers. I think using paypal would help > with > > > that. > > > > > > The problem is, I can't lock the items while the user goes to paypal to > > pay > > > and wait for them to come back. > > > > > > Does paypal offer anything that would allow them to pay with paypal, > but > > do > > > so instantly like a normal cc charge? Something I can do on our site's > > > backend. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313048 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
