Shopping Cart Not Needed

[ekrimmel]

I have a question that is similair to a couple of previous posts but not exactly the same.

 

My business is set up to process credit cards and I want to sell my product on line. All I need is a simple form and the customers name, address, and credit card number. I don't need a shopping cart to manage and keep track of tens or hundreds of items, and if I don't have to, I'd rather not spend the time to set up a shopping cart or the money to have someone else process the transactions.

 

I was wondering if I could have customers fill out a form that is secure and submit it, where it would be held on the Total Choice server until I could log in securely and download it. Then I would fill the orders and process the transaction through my own merchant account. Is this possible?

 

Eric

[Pendragon]

I have a question that is similair to a couple of previous posts but not exactly the same.

 

My business is set up to process credit cards and I want to sell my product on line. All I need is a simple form and the customers name, address, and credit card number. I don't need a shopping cart to manage and keep track of tens or hundreds of items, and if I don't have to, I'd rather not spend the time to set up a shopping cart or the money to have someone else process the transactions.

 

I was wondering if I could have customers fill out a form that is secure and submit it, where it would be held on the Total Choice server until I could log in securely and download it. Then I would fill the orders and process the transaction through my own merchant account. Is this possible?

 

Eric

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I don't see why not, the trick would be ensuring where the info was saved was secure, and that your customers felt safe that it was secure.

 

You know that manual transactions have a higher fee than automated ones, not to mention the time you will spend to process them. You may come to a point where you are spending more to do them manual than it would cost to have a processor do them. I think I was paying around $20 a month, flat rate for my online processing. Just one hour of your time spent processing these transactions manually and you've spent the monthly fee to do them automatically.

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Another nice thing about a virtual terminal is that you don't have to worry about storing the payment information. You can post directly to the gateway machine, and a status code is returned, so you never need to stress over having such sensitive data kept in either a database or being sent through email.

[ekrimmel]

Thanks for the replies. I'm still looking into options. Any sugestions would be appreciated.

 

 

Eric

[djk]

Thanks for the replies. I'm still looking into options. Any sugestions would be appreciated.

 

 

Eric

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my guess is you could do a webform but your still gonna have to buy the SSL connection for it. Once the data is transmitted you can have it encrypted in a .php database (MySQL) I would imagine.