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Credit Card Transactions

Not strictly a Java Script Q sorry :-

My problem is i want to set up a Web Site with which i would like to accept Credit Card Transactions - im not looking for code for my site, i need advice as to how to go about this.

I am not a business, i have no experience dealing with credit cards. I want to be able to say ok whats your credit card number how much and transfer the funds.    

can any one help Please

Im sure there are a few of you who have done this themselves
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I am afraid you need to get in touch with a site that can handle it for you (merchant status) An alternative if you are in the states (and hopefully soon in Europe) is PayPal

Michel
Something like these (no guarantee that they are not frauds, sorry)

http://www.americancreditcard.com/

http://www.realtime.net/anr/merchant.html
http://www.merchant-accounts.net/creditcard.htm

All found searchin on merchant creditcard in altavista
I am working in a b2c site and we do credit card authorizations in our site using components from CyberCash (http://www.cybercash.com/).  You have to get a merchant-id from them and use the various components provided by them in your website.

Also, you have to acquire a SSL Certificate and install it in your server and make the pages that transfer credit card information from the browser to the server as https:// by using a Certificate Server... This assures the client that nobody else other than the site itself can read his credit card information.  Also, you should make sure that you dont send back the credit card info from the server to client as that is not secure.  You can get your certificate from VeriSign (http://www.verisign.com)

With the aid of these two sites, a web server with certificate server/SSL enabled... and a programmer to do the stuff, you are offffffffff...

how is that ?

We are doing it, it is pretty straightforward :-)

Hope it helps
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I think you should first study how credit card transactions work, both in the real world and online:

http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/ElectronicProperty/klamond/credit_card.htm

The above site would give you a brief picture about it.

Then you could find a Merchant Server software that let retailers accept credit card payments over the Internet. One example is VeriFone's vPOS Merchant Server:

http://www.verifone.hp.com/support/software/vpos/index.html

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