RE: Credit Card Authorization

I've found at least two product that enable Credit Card processing on the
AS/400.  One is Curbstone and the other is from Patrick Townsend Assoc.  I
haven't used either yet.  We have to wait to find out if our Bank has
certified one or both for processing first.
Bill Erhardt
Baldwin hardware

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 3:44 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Credit Card Authorization



On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 T.Bryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I am investigating implementing an online real-time credit card 
> authorization system via an AS/400 RPGILE user interface.
[SNIP]
> My faith in the AS/400 leads me to believe that I should be able to 
> implement a system that doesn't  involve a third party and runs on a 
> green screen.

Some banks, and some 3rd party ISVs offer web services that can be used to
send a credit card number and validate it over the Internet.  (Using SSL
security.)

This is very common for Web sites that have shopping cart systems, they'll
check the credit card while the customer waits and make sure that it's
valid.

It would be possible to do the same thing in RPG.  Make a connection to the
web service, send the credit card (probably as an XML document) and receive
back the authorization number.

I'm pretty sure that some people have done this with my HTTPAPI open-source
service program. (Though, I haven't done it personally -- I've just been
told that it's been done.)

If you're interested, you might want to check out my web site for HTTPAPI:
http://www.scottklement.com/httpapi/

There aren't any credit card examples, but perhaps after doing some research
on what's available in this area, and after looking at some of the
non-credit card examples that I demonstrate, things will click for you.

I'd certainly prefer this over a dial-up system!!
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