A quick search on the Internet for ???credit card gateway??? will produce
a long list. The web sites of these companies are for the most part pure brochureware??”you??™ll
find yourself reading through pages of text about how they are the best and most secure at what
they do, only to end up with a form to fill in so that a customer service representative can call
you to ???discuss your needs.??? In the long run, you can rest assured that at least you will probably
only have to go through the procedure once.
You??™ll probably find that most of the organizations offering this service are offering similar
packages. However, some key points to look for include the banks they do business with (your
merchant bank account will have to be at one of these), the currencies they deal in, and, of course,
the costs.
Table 20-1 shows some of the gateway services available. In this chapter, we??™ll look at two
of the few organizations that are easy to deal with??”DataCash and Authorize.net.
Table 20-1. Gateway Services
United States United Kingdom
Gateways URL Gateways URL
Authorize.net http://www.authorize.net/ Arcot http://www.arcot.com/
First Data http://www.firstdata.com/ WorldPay http://www.worldpay.com/
Cardservice http://cardservice.com/ DataCash http://www.datacash.com/
ICVerify http://www.icverify.com/
DataCash and Authorize.net
In this chapter, we??™ll demonstrate implementing credit card transactions with two online services:
DataCash and Authorize.
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