> sorry this is off topic so I'll keep it short. Are any of you involved > with Non Profits who have web sites that have secure visa donation forms? > > For non tech people SSL is secure socket layer. When you go to a web site > that asks for visa info you should look down at your web browser > status bar > and see that special yellow icon in the shape of a key. This means the > web site is using SSL. If you don't see that key icon stop and question. > > We, the SF Green party, are looking to do this by paying a 3rd party web > vendor to process the SSL technical stuff for us. The other way we have > decided not to go would be to get an SSL certificate for our own website > and server. Reply and I'll cc you on the best suggestions or input. > Thanks, joe. > > We sell books, maps, memberships and take contributions from our web site. We use a third party to do the actual SSL part of the transactions. Certificates for your own server are expensive and not worth it unless you have a large enough volume. Using a third party reduces the problem to one of getting the information from the third party back to your office securely. There are two general schemes to do this. Some have a web page that you access via a password that is SSL protected. You then either print or cut/paste from the web pages to your machine, or sometimes download files. Others send you an encrypted email for each transaction. You need an email certificate for this to work but they are something like $15 a year so they are not a problem. We use one that uses the latter.
Once you have the transaction, you need to interact with a credit card processor to get the charge credited to your account. Some third parties will do automatic credit card processing automatically for you at an additional cost, typically 2% (added to about 2% charge to the credit card company). I don't recommend the automatic process if you selling goods as it is not tied to your inventory and you may not be able to fill the order in a timely fashion. To make this relevant to ebase, either of these approaches still leaves you with the manual chore of adding the relevant information to ebase (and probably your accounting program). ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
