Re: Merchant account (VISA) software

Dave Cinege (dcinege@psychosis.com)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:34:25 +0000


Jim Roland wrote:

> I was looking at ecommerce sites (you run a small script on your side
> that
> contact's their server, and they do the auth on the card, and return the
> result to you) where you keep the webpages and the interface, but run
> their scripts to get the card auth.

It's hard to find a place that doesn't nail you to a cross for this.
This webcash place wants $500 just for setup, and $0.50 a transaction.
($25 monthly minimum) RAPE!

I did find some straight unix software called CCVS for getting authentication
through a modem. For the Linux version they wanted $1K.
I told them they are crazy.

All these transaction terminals are just little modems that feed the info
and wait for replies. I'm guessing this is just send-expect ASCII strings.
I'm going to look into this and see about writing my own.

> I seem to remember that they (at least one) had linux software.
> http://www.webcash.com and the other I can't find now. Search on
> infoseek, and search for ecommerce and/or merchant processing.

I spent 2 hours doing this yesterday, with poor results. It's hard to find
MS Windouche software for less then $300. Sorry, I'm just to cheap to pay that
for what I consider a glorified terminal program. : P

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