>Might someone out there point me (a simpleton) in a direction to gain a >little more understanding about shopping carts and details about connecting >back end code to all the appropriate financial pieces please?
In terms of connecting to the bank, you generally use an online payment gateway such as Authorize.Net or Verisign PayFlow which handles the processing of the credit card and then depositing the funds through your merchant account. In terms of how to do this, it varies totally depending on the service that you use. AuthNet is the easiest I am familiar with, you just use a CFHTTP post and then process the return information to see if the transaction failed or was approved. Others like Linkpoint and Verisign require installing components on the server but provide CFX tags to make CF integration easier. Others may be more difficult, such as Cybersource which requires the use of a COM object. And there are those like PayPal and 2Checkout where the customer leaves your site altogether and you have to determine whether to save the order before or after the customer leaves your site and how to deal with uncompleted orders. So you really need to decide which service you are using before looking for specific information on how to integrate it. -------------------- Mary Jo Sminkey http://www.cfwebstore.com CFWebstore, ColdFusion E-commerce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246660 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
