Suz wrote:
> Does anybody know anything about Intellipay or Intellicart? Our clients
> signed up with Card Services International and somehow got forced into a
> longterm contract with Intellipay. Here's what he says:
>
> "We signed up with Intellipay because it was forced on us by CSI
I have a client who signed up with CardServices back in 11/97. Since then
they have been satisifed and I have not heard anything about "forcing" them
to use a particular credit card verification gateway.
> and to
> connect with any shopping cart system. It doesn't. It only connects with
> it's own, called Intellicart. Intellicart sucks. I screwed with
> HTML code
> for four hours last night, following their crappy instructions, and
> couldn't get it to work right. Even if I had gotten it to work, it's not
> what we want anyway. "
If the guy is creative, he will be hard pressed to be satisified with any of
the storefront in an hour types of packages. The ones I've seen have been
relatively generic and have not offered a much, if any, room for html custom
editing. Viaweb was the one I was most impressed with. They seemed to have a
very clean interface and comprehensive reporting.
> They've abandoned their idea of having a mirror site with one site hooked
> to Merchant Planet and another to Viaweb, which they like better than
> MerchantPlanet. (Plus,there's a site promotion thing connected with
> Merchant Planet that's going to cost them huge commissions). Now, I think
> the story goes, Viaweb has severed its relationship with Intellipay, and
> now the client is stuck. I would love to come up with a solution for them.
http://www.authorizenet.com/
particularly this product:
http://www.authorizenet.com/pages/weblink.htm
I have been using them for around 9 months and have not had any problems.
Tech support, when needed, is very responsive. If you go this route you will
have to do a little scripting to collect data prior to sending the dollar
amount to the AuthorizeNet credit card verification gateway.
They're not in the business of building storefronts, just processing
transactions and providing reports on transaction data, so I'm not sure this
is the all-in-one solution you are looking for, but....well...they may be
hard-pressed to find some pre-fab storefront that will satisfy their
creative urges AND give them transaction processing. IMO, they should cough
up a few dollars for a little scripting and do it right...that way the
storefront and the transaction system will mesh in appearance with the
existing site (that you're going to have done tomorrow!)
Jack
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