Thanks Vince, this totally realigns my thinking. I had been assuming you needed the original number to issue a refund.
I will definitely be more inclined to switch to a merchant's account as some point, since PayPal WebSite Payments Pro already has caused me to build most of the infrastructure that would interact with a merchant gateway's APIs. Daniel On Dec 23, 2009, at 11:45am, Vince LaMonica wrote: > Going back to the original point - you can opt to collect the > numbers and > CVV number [though storage beyond a few seconds is not allowed], but > there > is no need to, since the gateway has that info and you can issue > refunds, > etc via them w/o having to know the original number.
