Quick and Credit Card Processing (MPE/iX)

[Pete Foulkes]

We (in the UK) have been getting on-line authorisations from PH on unix for
many years using bespoke comms software. When we moved to (non-powerhouse)
Windows clients, we had to find an alternative solution and were recommended
Comms XL as a suitable software solution.

Their Windows / NT client software reads & writes files directly on disk. 
We wrote our own TCP transport and listener server process to connect our
windows / NT/ Citrix clients to the auth processing software.
They may offer a slightly different solution more appropriate to your needs.

The solution we implemented has proven reliable in the last 6 months of
heavy usage and their staff were reasonably helpful. Have a look at 

http://www.commsxl.com

You could also have a look at the following URL as a list of suppliers on
the Barclays Merchant Services website.

http://www.bms.barclaysquare.co.uk/software.html

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Pete Foulkes. 

Support Manager.
Powersoft Computer Services Ltd.
mailto:petefoulkes@powersoft-services.co.uk

Telephone 01293 562730    Fax  01293 522006


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Sharman [mailto:Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 9:40 AM
To: combblai@isu.edu
Cc: Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk; powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu
Subject: RE: Quick and Credit Card Processing (MPE/iX)



>I want to accept credit card payments from within a
>Powerhouse Quick screen and submit the credit card number to
>the processor immediately for confirmation and authorization
>from our HP3000. I am trying to find a software and hardware
>solution to interface with. I have spoke with Telamon and
>John Alleyn-Day (Xport25) but have not been able to speak
>with a site actually using one of these solutions or a
>different solution successfully.

Not heard of either of these, perhaps because they're both HP specific.
I'm looking at this problem too, talked to Commidea (www.commidea.com).
Got a developers' evaluation kit from them which looks good. It's a PC
product
called WinTI, which should interface to our VMS box by polled files in a
shared
directory. It also provides a lot of exportable info, so that you can do
preliminary validation of the number locally (eg using an external from the
edit procedure), identifying the card & whether you need issue numbers or
dates or whatever.

Other companies in this area include:
	www.servebase.co.uk (PC-EFT)
	www.cybercash.com (ICverify etc - support for VMS etc unclear)

Anyone got any other recommendations, names, or tales to tell ?

Chris
_______________________________________________________________________
Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk		http://www.ccastat.demon.co.uk/
CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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