Jim-
how to start........
--- stay far away from ONCR's tag.... it's known to be slow/buggy and
basically unsupported..... we've had no problems with Allaire's tag
A general warning about Cybercash.... it's slower to process transactions
than AuthorizeNet.... maybe because they're so popular. I've had other
developers of e-commerce sites (eg in ASP etc) all complain about the time
it takes for Cybercash to return a response. Some think the delay is
between Cybercash and the Credit Card clearinghouse.... so depending on
what bank your client is working with, things might be slower or faster.
Just thought I'd warn you.... better put plenty of stuff in your code to
handle timeouts, just in case.
--- assuming it's a recent Cybercash account, DON"T install anything on
your server from Cybercash..... everything you need will come with the
Allaire installation
--- your AuthorizeNet experience will be useful..... in general the
approach is similar, assuming that with AuthorizeNet you've been building
your own secure forms and using CFHTTP to kick off the authorization. If
with AuthorizeNet you've been using THEIR secure order form, than the
approach is different.
One major difference between the 2 gateways......
In AuthorizeNet you get to indicate ON THE TRANSACTION whether it's a test
transaction or not. IE Even once the site is live, you can still feed test
transactions through (eg off a test server while testing upgrades to the
site), and nothing is confused.
But with Cybercash your account is either in TEST mode or LIVE mode.....
that's it!
What we've done to somewhat compensate for this problem is that we tack
onto the orderid a P or a T (for production vs test). That way, whenever we
go to the Cybercash site to review the transactions, it's evident which
ones are from the test server and can be ignored.
But beware.... just because you tack a 'T' onto the order id doesn't mean
that Cybercash understands this to be a test transaction. It's still 'for
real' as far as they're concerned, so better use a TEST (ie fake) credit
card number while you're testing (eg VISA number 4111111111111111).
hth... just keep asking questions.....
Tobe Goldfinger
jdt technologies, ltd.
At 11:51 AM 5/3/2000 , you wrote:
We've got a new client that has a Cybercash account and I need to
integrate a shopping cart app with Cybercash credit card authorization
service. I've used AuthorizeNet extensively in the past and have never
had a problem, but I'm not sure how much of that experience applies to
interfacing Cybercash.
So, where do I start? :-)
The bit of research that I've doen points to two CF tags for working with
Cybercash - Allaire's cfx_cybercash and ONCR's cfx_oncr_cybercash. It
appears people are using both, but are also having problems with the tags.
The terms "buggy" and "unfinished" are used in discussions of these tags
just a little more than I'd like to see. Can you also tie into Cybercash
directly from CF (non-CFX), or is that more work than it's worth?
We're hosting this site on our own servers. One thing that isn't yet
clear to me is whether Cybercash software needs to be installed on the
server (NT4/SP6a/IIS) in order to utilize the service.
Any experience, pointers, or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Jim
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