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rollerskatie
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March 28, 2007
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UK Payment Gateways

  • March 28, 2007
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Im by no means a seasoned developer and am looking for a payment gateway to incorporate into my cf website. I need to be able to pass the data to the payment processer and then allow my users access to my site when the payment has been made (so passing session variables will probs be the answer). Can anyone recommend some good services out there? I've looked into Worldpay but it seems quite expensive, im developing for a small business.
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    Steve Sommers
    Legend
    April 9, 2007
    Gateway: You can use $$$ ON THE NET (our product) but for the UK, I believe that PAGO is the only processor we're certified with that does business there. I definitely would not recommend PAGO to anyone -- their support is atrocious!

    Shopping cart: Because of your opening statement "I'm by no means a seasoned developer," I would definitely recommend using a premade shopping cart or having a seasoned programmer write one for you. Don't get me wrong, it is a great learning exercise but it will take much more time than you think. Stuff like preventing double postings, back-end order fulfillment, payment gateway API, etc., etc., etc. all take time. The three cards mentioned all have good reatings by users. I have experience with CFWebstore - for the prices, well worth the investment.

    Good luck.
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    rollerskatieAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 29, 2007
    Should i be finding a shopping cart as well? I imagine i can relatively easily create my own, but many payment gateways recommend buying one...
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    Outside5 Ltd
    Inspiring
    March 29, 2007
    I have built my own cart in CF as I wanted a fairly specific setup and didn't want to have to make my site fit a bought carts restrictions. I remember seeing plenty of posts on recommendations for off-the-shelf carts.

    Some I remember seeing some of these mentioned before:
    Cartweaver
    CFWebstore
    CF_Ezcart

    But I have had no experience in using any of them, so cannot vouch for quality.

    Paul
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    rollerskatieAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 29, 2007
    please?
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    Outside5 Ltd
    Inspiring
    March 29, 2007
    rollerskatie,

    Barclays Bank offer a system called ePDQ and HSBC offer a system called Secure ePayments.

    Both of these are relatively easy to integrate, however do have tricky aspects to them and rather bad technical documentation. Barclays in particular do not offer much support, and the support HSBC offer is relatively useless.

    These are two that I have used in the past with eventual success.

    Paul
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