Mooligan Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 Just a little confused, I realize I need a merchant account, but what is needed if I want to accept credit cards on my site without going to an external site. Is that possible? I was interested in autorize.net as there is a contribution for it and it seems popular, but what exactly does it do, it takes the user to their site for payment doesn't it? Thanks in advance for clarification.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 Hi, If you have your own merchant account like in a retail store then you can just get a ssl certificate and log into your admin to get your credit card orders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooligan Posted March 16, 2003 Author Share Posted March 16, 2003 Hmm, what im asking though is if OsCommerce can process the credit card payments automatically, without taking you to an external gateway processor. This as opposed to I think what you are suggesting; to just login to admin, take down the CC#'s and manually enter them at my swipe machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramesh Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 I think the answer is no. Oscommerce cannot do that. its like having a telephone (oscommerce) you still need a phone line to use it ! You need a merchant account or some method to process and validate your customers cards. Special Effects / 3d + Flash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooligan Posted March 16, 2003 Author Share Posted March 16, 2003 Hmm ok. I understand I need a merchant account to handle the transaction, but the gateway is what I wasn't clear on. I thought there was a way to do it all within my OsCommerce site without having the user have to go to an external site to handle the payment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangechicken Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 Of course there's ways to do this. What I think the original question is asking is, can the user pay with credit card from the oscommerce site without having to send the user to a place like Yahoo! stores to enter in the credit card info. If you use Authorize.net you can do this. There's numerous other payment gateways that are supported. It comes down to what terms & fees you want for the gateway. HTH, chicken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooligan Posted March 16, 2003 Author Share Posted March 16, 2003 Ahh thank you Mr.Chicken. Thats exactly what I was looking for, how to not do it by entering a 3rd party site. I didn't think it was a service that the actual gateway offered, I will look for it in them now. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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