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 It can be confusing and mysterious, so exactly what's needed to collect credit card payments on your web site?
1. Cart Application/Client: your web site's shopping cart (i.e. osCommerce, VirtueMart).
2. Payment Module: an application running in your site's shopping cart that interfaces with a Payment Gateway (sometimes using the same name as the Payment Module).
3. Payment Gateway: a vendor service that accepts credit card payments from your web site for processing (i.e. Authorize.net, PayJunction, IPayment, PayPal).
4. CC Processor: a step that the web site doesn't have any communication with. It's a step between the Payment Gateway and the Merchant Services Provider.
5. Merchant Services Provider: a vendor who handles the actual monetary transaction of getting your customer's money to you (i.e. Chase Paymentech).
6. Secure Hosting Account (https): a hosting service with a Secure Socket Layer (SSL), encrypting data transmissions between your web site's shopping cart (server-side) and your customer's computer (client-side).
7. SSL Certificate: a digital "signature" record, specific to your web site, installed on your hosting account. The certificate authenticates you as the entity you claim to be. SSL certificates are issued by third-party Certificate Authorities (i.e. Verisign, Comodo) after validating your signed application (sometimes called a Certificate Request Form) and Certificate Signing Request (CSR).
8. Certificate Signing Request (CSR): an encrypted digital file used by Certificate Authorities to issue a Secure Certificate. Typically, CSRs can be generated by you via a web form in your hosting account's "control panel." The form asks for things like your organization's name, address and web site domain. Once validated, your Certificate Authority will issue the corresponding Secure Certificate, which must be installed on the web host of your site's secure pages.
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Services
- Web site design, development, scripting, maintenance and consulting.
- Joomla, WordPress, osCommerce, Zen Cart and other CMS applications.
- Graphic design and Flash animation.
- Web copy editing and optimization.
- Private training — web technologies and content management systems.
Server-side Technologies
Joomla | RocketTheme Joomla Templates | Zen Cart | osCommerce | VirtueMart | WordPress | vBulletin | PHP Login | Gallery2 | ShopSite | PayPal Merchant | CafePress Shops | phpMyAdmin | Mailman2 (list-serve) | more.
Owner
Frank Nilsen, President and CEO, Principal Developer/Designer. Connect on LinkedIn.
Certified Web Site Designer/Manager, Online Commerce Developer and XHTML/CSS Programmer. AA, MOUS. |
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- Anne Van De Water, Santa Barbara, CA
- Association of Water Agencies Ventura County (AWAVC), Ventura, CA
- Beaumont Housing Authority, Beaumont, TX
- Baxter BioScience, Westlake Village, CA
- Becket Films, LLC, Ojai, CA
- BiblioBuffet, Santa Barbara, CA
- California Literary Arts Society, Ventura, CA
- Catalina Imaging, Inc., Loomis, CA
- Coach-Connection, Oxnard, CA
- Coastal Softub, Ventura, CA
- Cycling is not a Crime, Ventura, CA
- Decision Management Solutions, Palo Alto, CA
- Design TV Network/Transparency, Inc., Westlake Village, CA
- Erik Storli, iPhone App Developer, Bodø, Norway
- Extreme Speed Track Events, Valencia, CA
- Four Paws Veterinary Clinic, Santa Paula, CA
- Global Guidance, LLC, Camarillo, CA
- Great Lakes Notary, Flushing, MI
- Green Goddess Gardening, Ojai, CA
- Griffin Laboratories, Temecula, CA
- House of Props, Inc., Hollywood, CA
- Image Source, Ventura, CA
- InterFUEL, Ventura, CA
- Ironwood Dermatology, Tucson, AZ
- Jan Christian, Ventura, CA
- KneeridersSM, Roseville, CA
- Krohn Construction, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA
- L.A. Poverty, Los Angeles, CA
- Laurel Springs School, Ojai, CA
- Learning Springs (the), Ojai, CA
- Livable Streets Coalition, Santa Barbara, CA
- Live Fit Magazine, San Diego, CA
- Lynn Houston Studio, Goleta, CA
- Malibu Institute of Media Arts (MIMA), Oxnard, CA
- Mallen Designs, LLC, Santa Barbara, CA
- Mercy and Manna Music, Tucson, AZ
- Mesquite Gastroenterology Surgery Center, Tucson, AZ
- Mirror Image Translations & Services, Oxnard, CA
- Ojai School of Massage, Ojai, CA
- Ojai Valley Chamber of Commerce, Ojai, CA
- Pacific Coast Business Times, Santa Barbara, CA
- Palm Avenue Associates, Carpinteria, CA
- Patagonia, Inc., Ventura, CA
- Santa Barbara Chocolate Company, Ventura, CA
- Santa Barbara News Network, Carpinteria, CA
- Santa Clarita Speed Skating Club, Valencia, CA
- Sarada Ayurvedic Remedies, Ojai, CA
- Scanlon, Guerra, Burke (SGB) Insurance Brokers, Woodland Hills, CA
- Somis Group, Somis, CA
- T&I Grafix, Portland, OR
- Team Balli, Honolulu, HI
- Unified Buddhist Church, Temecula, CA
- Ventura County Writer's Club, Thousand Oaks, CA
- Victoria Torf, Fine Art & Graphic Design, Ventura, CA
- Virtual Armor, Denver, CO
- Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, Camarillo, CA
- Women's Economic Ventures, Santa Barbara and Ventura, CA
- Yorkville Nannies, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Youngblood Mineral Cosmetics, Simi Valley, CA
- Zerner Law, Los Angeles, CA
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