LinkPoint fullpay payonly

[stevevogelnu]

So I'm slowly getting sucked deeper and deeper into oscommerce... My little hobby business needs to grow up from pay pal and I don't like the complexity of the existing linkpoint contributions. It appears that all the linkpoint contributions are oriented around Linkpoint API (even though they say they are doing Linkpoint Connect) and collecting credit card data on merchants own secure server. None collect the credit card code. The existing CVV hacks require a popup for some reason; which any self respecting user would have disabled.

 

I'm thinking about modifying the PayPal module to take advantage of the Linkpoint Connect "payonly" capability. Linkpoint thereby provides the secure server (at no charge) and the whole process would work a lot like PayPal, only way simpler all around for both customer and merchant. When customer confirms their order they would get directed to LinkPoint for credit card information collection; once approved they get sent back to payment_success or some such place.

 

In my little naive world, it looks like a simple hack. Mostly I'm worried that I've oversimplified the problem. Anybody ever tried to make oscommerce do this with linkpoint? It seems too easy (and so very useful); somebody should have tried this already.

[stevevogelnu]

If anybody is interested, it really was quite trivial to modify linkpointconnect 1.0 to do this. I simply removed any commands that referenced credit card number or exp date. When the transaction shows up at linkpoint missing this information, they redirect you to a secure server where they collect it.

 

This completely eliminates the need to get a secure server.

 

One more thing. Linkpoint connect incorrectly documents the return page information. You must return to "...checkout_process.php"

 

So I'm slowly getting sucked deeper and deeper into oscommerce...  My little hobby business needs to grow up from pay pal and I don't like the complexity of the existing linkpoint contributions.  It appears that all the linkpoint contributions are oriented around Linkpoint API (even though they say they are doing Linkpoint Connect) and collecting credit card data on merchants own secure server.  None collect the credit card code.  The existing CVV hacks require a popup for some reason; which any self respecting user would have disabled.

 

I'm thinking about modifying the PayPal module to take advantage of the Linkpoint Connect "payonly" capability.  Linkpoint thereby provides the secure server (at no charge) and the whole process would work a lot like PayPal, only way simpler all around for both customer and merchant.  When customer confirms their order they would get directed to LinkPoint for credit card information collection; once approved they get sent back to payment_success or some such place.

 

In my little naive world, it looks like a simple hack.  Mostly I'm worried that I've oversimplified the problem.  Anybody ever tried to make oscommerce do this with linkpoint?  It seems too easy (and so very useful); somebody should have tried this already.

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