Thanks all. Unfortunately I specifically need credit card transaction handlers, since that is the nature of our customer base. I will report my experiences regarding the vendor I choose to the list in the hopes that it might be useful to someone. AM Marc Burgauer wrote:
If you want to go down the easy route, use PayPal. They have two options for either single purchase items or a shopping cart. You add some HTML-form code to your catalogue that gets submitted to the PayPal site.
PayPal takes care of all the payment details (SSL, card verification, etc.). It took me 3 hours from reading their documentation to completion to add a "Buy now" option to a catalogue built in Zope.
To activate an account with PayPal, you need to give them your (or your customers) credit card details. They will take out a small payment (in my case it was £1.95) and when you get your next statement, there's an ID with that payment that you need to submit at the PayPal site to activate your account. I accessed my credit card statement on-line and got the ID 2 days after I submitted my details.
They take a small percentage off each transaction. No setup fees.
Of course, this is not a big-scale solution! ;-) But you didn't say you need big and it is REALLY easy!
The customer I have implemented this for has sold goods worth approx. £20'000 in its first pay-enabled month! (February 2003) So I don't think people have a problem giving PayPal their credit card details.
Cheers
Marc
Does anybody have any experience with integrating third party electronic payment solutions with a zope site? If yes which one would you recommend? ANs how hard or easy is it to do it?
Thanks AM
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