Anyone using E-Authorize from Waves in Motion?

[gregincolumbus]

A non-profit group I develop for is considering this as a means of doing conference registrations (processing credit cards). The need for this ability is only for 3 days each year..but the number of registrations during that time is fairly substantial.

I would love to hear from others that have used this plugin. I own a couple of Wavesin Motion plugins and I have NOT been overly impressed with their service or tech support. I don't want to buy a lemon.

Impressions anyone?

[SteveB]

Their tech support is the pits...stay away. I used E-Authorize, which worked after about 1 month of pestering them. They came out with a new version which I couldn't make work and I couldn't go back to the old version. They blamed the bank, Verisign, etc. but it was their problem. I finally wrote my own (not really a plugin...no C++), which for Versign is pretty easy since they have an SDK that does almost the whole thing.

Steve

[gregincolumbus]

Steve

Thanks for the feedback...I have also not had great luck with their service....Could you tell me more about the solution you developed? I am completely a newbie at point of sale type of credit card processing....how can I obtain the SDK? How hard was it to modify? I assume it is secure....etc.

Thanks again for the quick feedback.

Greg

[SteveB]

The SDK is available from Verisign's Web Site for free. Their documentation is also good, and their tech support was helpful. I would imagine that the other credit card processing companies also have SDK's that will establish communications with their servers.

The Verisign SDK essentially is a .EXE that you can pass command line parameters to. It establishes a secure link to the Verisign server. The string that you need to create is fairly simple: name, credit card #, expiration date, etc.

I created a simple WinBatch program to build up the parameters (the string above plus a set of values that never change like my login codes to the Verisign server). I then execute the WinBatch pgm and wait for an answer inside of an FM loop.

Steve

[SteveB]

I just noticed that you use a Mac. Obviously WinBatch won't run. Applescript might do the trick. Does it support passing command line parameters?

Steve