Thanks for the correction Bob. idyknyk :)

2009/9/27 Bob Waycott <[email protected]>

> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, Samuel, but at least Authorize.net does
> not require a customer to enter information on their site. They are a
> gateway only, not a checkout system. We use Authorize.net for our store at
> http://cranio.com, and the customer never leaves the site during the
> process.
> Seth, I would recommend not hacking Satchmo's views at all. If it were me,
> I would create a custom checkout template(s) & my own custom checkout view
> that calls out to Satchmo's views where necessary & returns any and all
> information needed for the one-page checkout template. This would ensure a
> much easier development process for you, and be much more easily maintained
> over the life of your store, preventing you from breaking your upgrade path
> with Satchmo.
>
> Implementing a one-page checkout isn't something currently available in
> Satchmo's existing code & templates, but it shouldn't be a problem to do so
> on your own, ensuring Satchmo remains untouched in the process.
>
> Best,
>
> Bob
>
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Samuel Hopkins 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Seth,
>>
>> Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I do believe that paypal is the only
>> 3rd party processor that you can do that with. All of the other ones (google
>> checkout, authorize.net, etc.) require the shopping cart to be packaged
>> up and passed to one of their pages where the customer would have to enter
>> their information again (this time with credit card info) or sign into an
>> account with the 3rd party. The reason for this is because they own access
>> to the payment gateway, implying more than a few things about the shopping
>> experience. If you wanted, your customer could get an account with a
>> merchant service provider which comes with direct access to a payment
>> gateway . This is more expensive, but worth it if the client has the money
>> and really cares about keeping their customer's on the same page throughout
>> the checkout process. If you went with this option, you would would have to
>> write a custom payment module (
>> http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/svn/custom-payment.html ). I just went
>> through a similar process with my client and after looking at the prices,
>> decided to stay with a 3rd party processor until he started doing enough
>> business through his online store.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Sam H.
>>
>> 2009/9/27 Seth <[email protected]>
>>
>>>
>>> The customer whose store I'm developing is set on having the customer
>>> contact/billing information and credit card information input on the
>>> same page.  Are there any easier ways to do this other than hacking
>>> satchmo's views and forms?  They'll only be using one payment module
>>> (authorize.net), so that shouldn't be a problem.  I was hoping to find
>>> some solution combining modified templates and signals, but I can't
>>> see how that would work.
>>>
>>> BTW I'm using Satchmo 0.9
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Samuel Hopkins
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>


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