Re: Merchant account (VISA) software

Dave Cinege (dcinege@psychosis.com)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 03:11:47 +0000


Dan Hollis wrote:
>
>
> Indeed. The hard stuff isnt the protocol itself, but rather the billing
> semantics they inflict on the end users, and the mess it creates for the
> programmer.

All I want is something I pass the card info and address (for AVS) to
and get back and auth# or a denied message with reason code. The
customer and transaction database, etc, etc is all seperate, as it
should be.

The more I'm looking at this the more it looks feesable that it could be
preformed right from the shell, using regex for the 'variations'
(aka sloppy implementation) I keep hearing about in the protocals.

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