Internet Secure Merchant Link

[avnorth]

I have seen several posts about hooking up to INS by using the same setting as authorize.net with ZenCart so after spending hour, and days, and weeks trying to set up ZenCart..(I bought THE BOOK and everything)... I am going back to a simple form post. My problem with Zen is that I need to capture specific info from the customer to provide a service product (A Canadian Nuans Name Search Report) and changing product attributes and values to do this is beyond my simple web skills. Now I find I can not even get a simple form post to work and the only help I get from INS is links to thier 2 year old "Help" pages.

If anyonehas any experience with Internet Secure's Merchant Link payment gateway I would love to know of any insights or suggestions you may have.

[avnorth]

With the help from an INS service staff member I have obtained a successful Test Transaction....(yea!!!)

Now to receive the service request information details from the form used to send the buyer to INS's secure payment pages I have to find:

" the path to the CGI or ASP application which will interpret the data posted from the InternetSecure Gateway. This entry must begin with a / (slash)."
(INS help library)

Would I find this in the MySQL database I just set up with the DB wizard here at BlueHost?

My problem is that I can't figure out where it is with the CPANEL File Manager.

Please help....I am so close after far to long with this.

[greenman]

It occurs to me you may already know all this, but let's say just for an exercise that instead of Nuans, it is Paypal that I need to corroborate with.

I send Paypal a lot of information using a form: name, address, phone, items, costs, total, etc.

I also send them a couple unique confirmation urls: one accept, and one reject. If the transaction is accepted, they return the unique accept confirmation code in the form. If negative, I receive the reject code.

To sum, I send PayPal all this information (probably more):
Name: James Brown
Phone: 555-1212
Email: james@brown.com
Total: $100.32
Shipping: $12.45
Accepted Code: http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/confirm/code#123456ASCSW
Rejected Code: http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/confirm/code#45676SKLAJQ

But I store all the same information myself in my own database before I send it to Paypal. The only thing I need back from paypal is the unique accept or reject code. If I don't get either, the transaction remains invalid until I get one or the other code. It's entirely driven by the customer who must come back to my site from paypal in order for it to validate. I can also receive an email from paypal with the accept code in it so I can set it as accepted manually, if necessary. The accept code sets in motion a number of actions on my site: Perhaps I get an email telling me I've just made a sale. My customer gets a page that says "Thank you for your purchase," and an email of the transaction. My database does databasy things.

It doesn't matter what the unique code is - it's just an identifier that I match up with my customer's data on my database to tell me whether the payment has been accepted or not. Something the customer cannot possibly guess, and won't see in the form.

This is just a simple way to do it with paypal. It will likely be different with Nuans, but the scheme should be similar. You provide them with a return address that includes some unique identifier code to accept or reject that purchase.

Zen Cart probably has systems already in place with many merchant account systems, including paypal. While I haven't looked at Zen Cart recently, I'm guessing there is a way to supply an accept/reject id to whomever it is you're using as your payment provider.

If you expect Nuans to send you reems of information to your database other than what you got from your customer or what you already supplied to Nuans, that is another story and probably out of the realm of Zen Cart or other online purchase software.

It also means you'll likely have to set up a home-made script that can accept the data from Nuans, interpret it, and spin it off into the correct fields in your database, after a security check and data cleaning.

[avnorth]

Thanx for posting Greenman!

First, let me clarify. The Nuans Name Search report is the service we provide after payment. It is not something the form post can do on it's own.


It occurs to me you may already know all this, but let's say just for an exercise that instead of "Internet Secure", it is Paypal that I need to corroborate with.

I send them a couple unique confirmation urls: one accept, and one reject. If the transaction is accepted, they return the unique accept confirmation code in the form. If negative, I receive the reject code.

That doesn't sound TOO hard.



The accept code sets in motion a number of actions on my site: Perhaps I get an email telling me I've just made a sale. My customer gets a page that says "Thank you for your purchase," and an email of the transaction. My database does databasy things.

Here is where my problems start. I don't know how to set up these "actions" .

We have a Business Paypal account I am trying to set up a form to colabortate with them.

I used their button wizard (unencypted) and pasted the code into my form but it didn't work. Please have a glance at http://corporateparalegal.ca/buynuans.html and http://corporateparalegal.ca/nuans/buynuans.html, the iframed form within the first page.

After payment I just need a way to "get" the form data back to us in an email for now. I'll try and figure out how to get it into a database later....(if I can)

Thanx again for the post and I hope this thread has not become inappropriate being more about Paypal than about BlueHost

[rcbcool]

Can anyone say the procedure to use curl for IS(Internetsecure) payment gateway? The format to send and to recieve the response.

Thanks in advance.:)