It's probably worth mentioning that ecOrder also has relationships with
several merchant processors, so that if you are willing to deal with one of
them, the authorization takes place before your organization receives the
email. This avoids redundantly entering data into something like ICverify,
as long as the order (or donation) is made over the internet.
Jonathan
At 12:10 AM 8/31/01, you wrote:
> >
> > >Then there is a fourth program, in our case ecOrder, which
> > receives orders
> > >placed from the web. Those orders need to be checked by a person
> > (or maybe a
> >
> > What is ecorder? Do you like it? Where can we find info about it.
> >
>It is the in-house side of our backend processing of orders from the web. We
>use a company www.multiactive.com to handle processing of orders from the
>web. You can play with it on our web site, www.nynjtc.org, and click on
>Hiker's Market Place to enter the store part of the site. Other than the
>first page of that area, the web pages are generated by ecBuilder. They go
>offsite to their machines when you choose to checkout. It is not the
>greatest backend in the world but it is very cost effective. When they are
>done with the processing they send us an encrypted email and we fill the
>order and charge the card, using the ecOrder program which is part of the
>package.
>
>Our number of orders per day are not high enough to make using a fully
>automatic backend cost effective. All the automatic backends I have looked
>at have minimum charges which make them unattractive.
>
>It is not the ideal system but it works reliably. All its data is in an
>Access database so we could write additional reports. We did write a special
>program to extract the email address of the person who ordered and we send
>them an email when we ship their goods. That is all automatic but not
>built-in. This is important for us as we frequently wind up adjusting the
>bill because they have done wrong things with taxes, etc. This is less of a
>problem now that we are based in NJ instead of NY where the sales tax cannot
>even be done correctly with the zipcode. In NY there are zipcodes, parts of
>which, pay different rates. Just this problem kept us from using almost all
>the cheap store backends.
>
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