There are three basic ways the Shopping Cart can handle Credit Card transactions:
- You may utilize the services of a real-time credit card processor and secure server such as Cambist. Not only are your customers credit card numbers safely encrypted, but funds are transferred immediately from your customers bank account to yours! The Shopping Cart currently works with 14+ other real-time credit card processors too!
- If you have a merchant account and don't want to use real-time credit card processing, the Shopping Cart can collect your customers credit card numbers for you. e-BlackHills.com comes with an additional option that works within this Shopping Cart. This option allows you to collect your customers credit card information on our secure server (
https://www.BlackhillsSecure.com), and then either have the sale info emailed to you, or you can download the file from our server to your computer.
- Not accept credit cards at all. You can turn this type of payment completely off.
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How Option #2 above works:
- Your customer chooses: "Secure Online Credit Card Transaction" in the Shopping Cart.
- Your customer submits their shipping address.
- The ssl.pl script on
https://www.BlackHillsSecure.com then accepts your customer's billing address and information and credit card number.
- It can perform some error checking to verify that the credit card number is not randomly picked or entered incorrectly.
- If their credit card number matches the format for the credit card type, your customer's billing information and credit card number will be emailed to you or appended to a datafile, and they will be sent back to the cart to get their printable customer receipt.
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