I tried mentioning what you said about writing my own software to a couple
of merchant account places (computer and non-computer), and they all came
back with the same answer. It is easier and faster to get things done by
obtaining software.
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On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Dave Cinege wrote:
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:34:25 +0000
> From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
> To: Jim Roland <jim@roland.net>
> Cc: linux-net <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: Merchant account (VISA) software
>
> 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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>
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