Hi Dan, Well, the boss is kind of a cheapskate - we have three kinds of purchases: online retail, online wholesale, and in-store - and he wants to keep the online retail authorizations separate from the other two kinds, without having to set up a third Authorize.net account.
I'll contact the techs over there, but I feel kind of dumb asking "can we do a card not present transaction on a card present account?" since the answer seems obvious. I guess that will probably satisfy the boss though. I only put it out to this list because the boss wanted me to (I'm always raving about this list), even though it really has nothing to do with CF specifically. -- Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Vega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 10:52 AM Subject: Re: OT: Authorize.net card present account > 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:268487 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
