so your user would stay within your site while the transaction is
processed so your session variables may continue to exist. Just a thought...
Cutter
Paul Vernon wrote:
> Dwayne,
>
>
> We don't rely on session variables for this sort of function as as you have
> found with the new privacy stuff in IE, sessions cannot be relied upon.....
>
>
> Instead, the way we do it is that we have a field in the orders table that
> indicates completion of the payment or not. We insert the basket contents
> into the order tables BEFORE we go to the payment gateway and when we
> transfer to the gateway, we pass a custom form field that carries the Order
> ID (most payment gateways do this). The Order ID is passed back to out
> transaction completion page upon payment where we can then update the order
> to the new status of completed. We therefore never have to rely on cookies
> being lost on transfer to or from our payment gateway.
>
>
> If the order is cancelled at the payment gateway, the custom form fields are
> still passed back so we know that the order was cancelled and we are safe to
> delete the non-completed order from the orders table. If the order has not
> been completed after a reasonable amount of time (say 6 hours) then we know
> that the user got to the payment gateway then closed their browser or
> something similar so again, we are safe to delete the non-completed order.
>
>
> HTH
>
>
> Paul
>
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