membership emails process question - asp

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hi all

I must admit im struggling with this one. Ive been working at it for a
while but cant find a straightforward solution.

My website has all the discussion groups written for it and i now want
to offer a charged service and memberships. This may be an old
chestnut but i cant find a posting that covers this process. i need
to:

A take credit card payments
B when payment is cleared (netbanx etc.) update my membership database
on the site
C send an email with the new members username and password so they can
use their account automatically

This is a hobby site for me, so please dont spend too much time on
this, I really could do with some pointers to some resources though.
If the process outlined above is completely wrong, please let me
know...

many many thanks

Mike Davidson

 

[Steve Easton]

For starters, to process credit card payments you're going to need a
security certificate and a secure https:/ server.

 

[mike davidson]

hi steve - thanks for the reply

yup - understand the credit card transaction bit thus far - its more
after the transaction has gone through. How do I get it to update my
membership database and then send an email with the registration
details on it.

im thinking ill have to set up lots of random passwords in the
memebrship database in advance then get the form to apply the username
to the next blank line (surname-1st initial-random number) so there
will be a relevant username and password available for the email.

The question is really whether i can get the credit card clearing to
trigger the updating of the database and the subsequent email to the
member.

many thanks

Mike Davidson

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

No you can't have them do it

You need to send the credit transaction to the merchant account from the web, and based on their response (approved or not) update
your DB w/ a new user account




| hi steve - thanks for the reply
|
| yup - understand the credit card transaction bit thus far - its more
| after the transaction has gone through. How do I get it to update my
| membership database and then send an email with the registration
| details on it.
|
| im thinking ill have to set up lots of random passwords in the
| memebrship database in advance then get the form to apply the username
| to the next blank line (surname-1st initial-random number) so there
| will be a relevant username and password available for the email.
|
| The question is really whether i can get the credit card clearing to
| trigger the updating of the database and the subsequent email to the
| member.
|
| many thanks
|
| Mike Davidson
|

 

[mike davidson]

thank you... at least thats cleared up... ill look at other ways to
get that sorted... )

many thanks

MIke D