icverify automation

[Mordaunt]

Feel like this better belongs under "third party" forum but not under either of the subforums created there so here goes...

I do work for a non-profit festival for which I've created a tickets sales database. We have ICverify software for processing credit cards. I have previously used these two items together by doing manual exports and imports with another company but it is now the office manager who is operating this system and I really need to automate the process. IcVerify comes with a "developer's kit" which details creating an in-between using Visual BAsic...problem is...I don't KNOW VB and don't have the time to learn at this juncture.

Contacted ICVerify to see if they offer services to develop these things inhouse or if they could recommend a developer but they were little to no help.

Anyone know if there's been something already developed that can be acquired using either ICVerify's "request-answer" technique or the DLL method described as:

Overview of the DLL Programming Interfaces

In single user installations an application can call the DLL either directly using the API interface. Before any transactions are sent to the DLL for processing, the DLL must be initialized. This is accomplished by sending the DLL an "Initialization Transaction."

Not expecting much but any help would be amazing!

Edited June 21, 2006 by Guest

[Søren Dyhr]

Is it completely imposible to make natively?

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/176925/post/206573/hl/checksum/#206573

...or:

http://www.briandunning.com/files/card_validator_35.zip

--sd

[Mordaunt]

Thanks for the reply but maybe I wasn't clear...contrary to the name, ICVerify is actually transaction software for processing credit cards not just verification of valid accounts. We use this vs a web based gateway (ie. ccauthorize or eauthorize ) due to the significant breaks in transaction fees and rates we recieve. Plus the company already spent the cash to purchase ICVerify.

[Wim Decorte]

FM can't talk to a DLL directly. You need to progam a piece of middleware that can and that you can talk to from inside FM.

[Mordaunt]

yes exactly...it is the middleware I am searching for. I have download the Visual Basic Express Edition to see if I can figure out how to create one but I am a complete novice at this programming language.

[SteveB]

Look at WinBatch from Link. Its primary purpose in life is to easily automate applications. I use it for lots of things. You'll need something like Troi File to communicate back and forth between it and Filemaker. It's pretty easy to use, and it comes with great customer support.

Steve