Re: New Security Issues could be crippling sales

From: Rob Frankel <rob_at_robfrankel.com>
Date: Fri 14 Jun 2002 21:27:57 -0500

On 6/14/02, Linda Alexander wrote:

>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.

You bet:

On my site, I have subscriptions and services for credit card sale
that don't require a shopping cart. There's simply a script that
allows people to click and pay for the subscription, ad or reserve a
phone call session.

The new series of e-books, however, represent a different problem:

1. Someone may want too make multiple purchases of different e-books.
2. I need a reliable method of automatically taking the payment and
then authorizing the download.

This stuff requires a shopping cart.

The problem arises when your credit card clearing house has an
existing relationship with your shopping cart. In Authorize.net's
case, they have a direct relationship with 1shoppingcart.com, for
security purposes. For my scripts, I can use a referring URL to
authorize the credit card purchase. But with this new system,
specifying the referral URL actually blocks out the 1shoppingcart
purchases.

The solution is for Authroize.net to issue two accounts: one for
your shopping cart company and one for your referring URL's. You
shopping cart company should have a set up pref that allows you to
register your credit card clearer's log-in and password.

That should do it.

Rob Frankel, "Yes, I really do turn users into evangelists for your brand."
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Received on Fri Jun 14 2002 - 21:27:57 CDT