Herouth et al.... 0. Shva has had an IP based interface for years. 1. Paypal is a viable alternative for digital goods - they're a reliable supplier owned by eBay and can process digital or physical goods for a reasonable commission. 2. There is a third party in Israel called Tranzilla - for low volume they may be too expensive. 3. In principle if you are selling digital goods (like a download) you need online authorization but for physical goods like shoes or books you are probably better off using Zencart with manual authorization - we've done this for a couple of clients and it works fine. There is an issue of storing credit card numbers and retrieving them - which we can help you offline if you need.
br Danny Lieberman www.software.co.il +972-8-970-1485(voice) +972-54-447-1114(Cell) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herouth Maoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lior Kesos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "linux-il" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:54 PM Subject: Re: automatic credit charging on open e-shops > Quoting Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Has anybody implemented an oscommerce/zencart + automatic charging scenario. > > Yes. In our little country, it usually requires a middle man. That is - a > company that connects to Shva (which does clearance for all credit cards in > Israel) and gives you a protocol with which you connect to it, as well as an > interface that allows you to follow the transactions and find problems. > > I'll give you the name of such a company in private, if you want. But I'm sure > there is more than one. > > The interface in our case was https based - you pass it some parameters (your > user ID, credit card number, sum, type of currency), and it returns success or > an error code. I implemented this using CURL from PHP. So the credit card > numbers are not kept in your database and do not become a privacy liability. We > did keep the last four digits of the credit cards for follow-up, though. > > Of course you have to set up an account with the clearance company, and if I'm > not mistaken the service is limited to a specific IP, which means that you may > have to negotiate with your ISP to not use transparent proxy on your machine. > > There is also a possibility of working directly with Shva, but if my memory > serves right, they do not supply IP-based services, only a telephony interface. > > Herouth > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
