That sounds Ideal Mike, hope you think of the name. I don't think Element5 is a good fit, as they want to charge a lot to deliver the software and all.
PayMate looks a bit amateurish. Simple, but worrying. You pass all the details, amount, currency in the URL. So a user could just alter this and buy your product for a different amount. Regards Dale Fraser http://learncf.com http://flexcf.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Kear Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2008 2:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Credit Card Payment Providors Dale, if your customers are mostly going to be in Australia, you want to use an Australian processing provider, not a US one. Even though providers in other countries will process in many currencies, they'll very likely convert back and forth to their own currency in the process costing you a fee each time, or a gain/loss on exchange. I can bet that converting AUD100 to USD and back again wont give you AUD100. There are some very good providers of credit card processing. You have already gathered that if you want to use your bank, you have to have a merchant account, but there are providers who dont require that, because they act as merchant. While i'm writing this I'm trying to remember the name of the company I used when i had exactly that issue with a client who couldnt get a merchant account. i'll remember it eventually and post it here for you. But that was a piece of cake to integrate. We sent http to their site using cfhttp (we could even just use the form action if we wanted but i thought that was far too open and risky) and got back a success or failure code. Once, i used to worry about sending users off to the bank's site for taking credit card details. I used to think that was a bad idea because we'd gone to all the trouble to get them to our site, now here we are sending them off to someone else's (the banks). But my attitude has changed in the last couple of years. Now, i do believe that customers feel more relaxed when they are giving their credit card numbers only in a bank site. They are more confident that you're not trying to rip them off (a constant worry for anyone who buys things on the net) and you get the benefit that you dont have the potential liability associated with keeping credit card numbers. You dont even get to know what their credit card number is. It's not your problem, it's the processing provider's. Now to try to remember what that company's name was. Hth. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > > > I have a need to take a credit card payment for specific items, and wish to > integrate to CF. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
