Re: payments from email

[Richard <..hidden..>]

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 21:05 -0500, James Stevens wrote:
> A question somewhat adjacent to this topic:
> One of the reasons we moved to this accounting bundle was to gain the
> ability to accept credit card payment from our clients/customers. 
> 
> Our scenario would be a client calls after receiving an invoice and asks
> to pay it with CC.
> We obtain the clients CC info over the phone and process it (via Ledger
> SMB) for said invoice.
> 
> It goes without saying we have not gotten that far yet. Is anyone doing
> this ?
> (The goal is to get AWAY from PayPal and use our own merchant services)
> 

We process many on-line orders and phone orders every day using LSMB.
For on-line orders we use a free site that securely handles gathering
card details (so we never have to keep them locally). This service can
link directly to a number of card processors. It's dead simple to
integrate this in to your web site (e-mail me at
..hidden.. with a meaningful subject for the
address).

Phone orders are typed into the card machine while the customer is on
the phone.

Personally I don't think keeping card details within LSMB is a good idea
unless one is extremely confident about security, and, for phone orders,
you're going to have to type the numbers into the card machine anyway.

Cheers
Richard     

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ..hidden.. [mailto:..hidden.. 
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 4:05 AM
> To: ..hidden..
> Subject: Re: [Ledger-smb-users] payments from email
> 
> As a follow up to my original question under this same subject dated
> June
> 12 to the devel list. Turns out a user can add one.
> How I added a paypal "buy it now button"
> 
> This will add a button that pays an invoice total using your merchant
> paypal account. We use project numbers to identify different contracting
> jobs for the same customer so substitute you own variable there or
> remove
> the projectnumber_1 line.
> 
> This does not allow a customer to create an order just pay a bill for
> work
> you already performed etc...
> 
> Edit the invoice.html file in templates.
> Append this code to the end of your invoice.html
> 
> <br>
> <form target="_blank" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr";
> method="post">
> 
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="..hidden..">
> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="<?lsmb total ?>">
> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="<?lsmb projectnumber_1 ?>">
> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="<?lsmb invnumber ?>">
> <input type="hidden" name="invoice" value="<?lsmb invnumber ?>">
> <input type="hidden" name="bn" value="YourBuisnessNameWithNOspaces">
> <input type="image"
> src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif"; border="0"
> name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
> <img alt="" border="0"
> src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif";
> width="1" height="1">
> 
> Tips:
> Do not use the paypal button creator.
> Insert your data for YourBuisnessNameWithNOspaces and
> ..hidden..
> 
> Email the invoice and use the html template.
> 
> Enjoy accepting plastic and getting paid faster but loosing a %.
> 
> -Turtle
> 
> 
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