Credit Cards Payment Gateway Processor

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ThePHPLearner
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Credit Cards Payment Gateway Processor

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Hi all,

I am a newbie student of PHP and Javascript. I have been searching the net and this forum for a tutorial/tips/how-to in order to allow processing fees with credit cards on a Minor Hockey Webiste. Can anyone give me directions as to how to go about it?

I believe I need a merchant account with a bank. Are they free? Where and how to set up the code on my webiste to accept and process the cards?

Would it be simpler and feasible to just take the card data and process it manually through forms? Would that be legal? How would you make sure that the process is equivalent to a face-to-face transaction with the customer?

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JPRoss
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Re: Credit Cards Payment Gateway Processor

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You need two things:

1 - a payment gateway (I use Authnet but there are many)
2 - an internet merchant account

And yes, they do cost money.

If you don't think you'll be needing to process very many transactions, you might consider doing PayPal.
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Re: Credit Cards Payment Gateway Processor

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Thanks for your feedback JP. Very appreciated.
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I secound AuthNet and love the fact they have a nice development sandbox as well.

Though I can't quite recall, I do believe the sandbox is available even if you don't have a paying account with them; perfect for learning developers.
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