First off I really don't see what your boss is trying to accomplish by "tricking" the system. Second I would talk to the techs over there because I have found them to be knowledgeable and quick to respond. Lastly, if they have two diffent ways to run cards such as web/card present than it is probably for a reason and probably works. I would have to think that the machine that swipes the card send some type of information that your web request does not. I hope that was helpful.
Dan On 2/2/07, Josh Nathanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > At my work we have two Authorize.net accounts: one is the standard type to > process web transactions and one is the "card present" type, which is > supposed to require an actual credit card swipe. > > For various dumb reasons my boss wants to use the card present account to > process web transactions. > > I tried bouncing a web transaction off the card present account, but not > surprisingly got the error "account not authorized for that type of > transaction" or some such. > > My boss thinks that because you are basically doing the same thing with > either account, IE sending a transaction request out over the web, you > should be able to process a web transaction with the card present account. > > I'm telling him that there is probably some information that gets sent > along > to the card present account that lets it know it is coming from the swipe > of > an actual credit card, so there's no way to "trick" Authorize.net. If you > could, it would obviate the whole idea of having a card present account. > > Who's right, me or my boss? > > -- Josh > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268484 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
