haha any customer who allows that to happen to them should have their computer taken away from them before they hurt themselves!
R On 26/04/11 23:55, Tim Oliver wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Bob M Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Does anyone on the list have any experience with POLi and feel >> qualified to comment about how the system works and any pitfalls? >> From the website (http://www.centricom.com/) POLi looks like it >> requires a Windows machine to perform the transaction which leads me >> to wonder how secure it is and what the implementation details are. > We've been assessing it too - it's basically a little application that > the client downloads as a browser plugin. This app embeds IE, and > drives the client through the process of logging into their own online > banking website and doing a direct bank transfer. > > The big advantage of it from a merchant's point of view is that it > bypasses most of the costs of credit cards - no special merchant > account, no PCI compliance, no such thing as chargebacks. > > >From the point of view of a customer the downsides are that you have > to install a weird and dodgy-looking component, it's Windows only, you > have to log into your online banking through a weird component, and > there's no such thing as chargebacks - once you send the money, it's > gone. Upside, you don't need a credit card, only online banking. > -- Phone (04) 381 4827 or 021 823 129 Skype rimu123 Web http://rimu.geek.nz/ -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
