Credit Card Processing

[Dave]

Any pointers on getting Access to batch process credit cards?
3rd party gateway software that might work well with Access?
Validation (should Access do that or let the gateway do that).
Other particular hurdles I may encounter or things I should consider before
I decide to try this?
Maybe even any canned solutions (Plug-ins/modules..) that I might be able to
purchase?

Any help here will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Dave

 

[Dave]

Is this just not doable at all?

Dave

 

[Ken Snell \(MVP\)]

I'm not aware of a specific method or process involving ACCESS, and I didn't
find any pertinent information about this via a Google search. Sorry.

 

[Guest]

You can do preliminary validation if you can find the validation
formula -- it's not exactly secret, but you do have to make an
application to a bank, and promise that the code will not be
released. So you may not easily find a VBA sample solution
for preliminary validation.

Or find it on a warz site. (Although anything you find on a
warz site is more likely to be full validation rather than preliminary
validation)

Full validation is supposed to be secret, you won't get that
because it allows you to generate valid credit card numbers.
Preliminary validation helps you prevent transcription errors.

Most of the bank bach interfaces are not really sophisticated.
You really need to talk to your bank - it will probably just be
a comma separated file with one line per transaction.

The banks do talk from time to time about standardisation,
but only when their private technology is so out of date as
to be unusable -- once they get going again they diverge again,
and they never turn off old systems, they just add new systems
as required, which is not very often. There are hundreds of
bank transfer protocols - and at least one company making
a living from bank protocol translation software.

(david)

 

[Jim]

Dave,

Check out CyberSource.com

Thanks,

Jim

Is this just not doable at all?

Dave