Re: New Security Issues could be crippling sales

From: Linda Alexander <lalexander_at_write2thepointcom.com>
Date: Fri 14 Jun 2002 10:27:14 -0500

Rob Frankel <rob_at_robfrankel.com> wrote:

>So if you are generating sales from pages other than those coming from your
>cart company, a conflict occurs and your cart sales are blocked.
>
>In this case, by specifying a referring URL to Authorize.net from my
>particular shopping cart, it was actually blocking sales coming
>directly from my web site that needed no cart.
>
>The solution is to call your clearing company (like Authorize.net)
>and create a second account (usually at no cost) especially for the
>cart company, so that its own transactions won't conflict with any
>others that are driven from your site.

Like what? Why wouldn't all my products be on the shopping
cart? (I'm just about to set up a shopping cart system for
the first time/) Can you please explain because this is
really confusing.

Linda

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Linda Elizabeth Alexander
Write To The Point Communications
Business Writer/Marketing Consultant
303-678-7468 lalexander_at_write2thepointcom.com
http://www.write2thepointcom.com



Received on Fri Jun 14 2002 - 10:27:14 CDT