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Payment Gateway, need help...

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:18 pm
by WithHisStripes
Heya,
So I have worked through a tutorial and created a PHP & MySQL driven shopping cart ( http://prokopephotography.firetree.us ) and am now wanting to set this up with a Payment Gateway. I've really only worked with Paypal in this department but I'm attempting to do this from the ground up.
My goal is to have the user to remain on pages hosted & written by me, I want them, obviously, to be secure & I want the transaction to be instant & seamless. Can anyone help?

Here's what I think I need:
SSL Certificate
Merchant Bank Account
Account with a Payment Gateway (such as Authorize.net)

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:36 pm
by Michael A
I'm pretty sure you have it covered.

You might want to have a look at this. It seems like a nice solution, but not exactly home-brewed.

http://www.charge.com/index.shtml

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:40 pm
by WithHisStripes
Thanks for the reply!

Okay, so then I guess my next question is, are there quality open source alternatives to these three things?

Re: Payment Gateway, need help...

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:24 pm
by Christopher
WithHisStripes wrote:Here's what I think I need:
SSL Certificate
Merchant Bank Account
Account with a Payment Gateway (such as Authorize.net)
There is not source code to be open in any of those things. The SSL Cert you can generate for free yourself, but the browser will give a warning message unless it is from a approved authority. The bank account and gateway are services and cost money.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:28 pm
by WithHisStripes
Okay,
That's what my understanding was, but I've, clearly, got limited knowledge of this process so I wasn't sure. How do you generate an SSL yourself? I assume through something like CPanel?

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:48 pm
by Christopher
WithHisStripes wrote:How do you generate an SSL yourself?
You need a program that can do that. I use the one that is part of OpenSSL.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:49 pm
by WithHisStripes
Okay. Well great, thanks for your time, it was really helpful!