Shopping cart with a twist

[jeff fisher]

It's not your normal shopping cart; we don't sell tangible goods, we sell data
so most of the existing shopping carts out there really won't work for us. The
game plan is to allow the customer to select amount/type of data they wish to
purchase, enter their credit card info, submit to the credit card company,
receive conformation from the credit card company, send them the data via email
and allow them to log in to access their data on-line. Coming up with the code
to allow the customer find the data they are looking for isn't the problem; it's
figuring out how to send payment information, receiving that information that
I'm having some difficulties figuring out. We run our own server and are
building everything up in .net/SQL2000 - I just have never dealt with the
on-line credit card transactions before.

[clintonG]

..netCharge is probably what you want to evaluate. More .net e-commerce
solutions are found at asp.net [1].
I've used ASP to write credit card payment processing interfaces for a cart
product that did not support the TicketMaster of Canada payment processor.
Its not too difficult but you have to pick your payment processor and dig
into their documentation.

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"jeff fisher" <jeff@fisher.com> wrote in message
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> It's not your normal shopping cart; we don't sell tangible goods, we sell
> data
> so most of the existing shopping carts out there really won't work for us.
> The
> game plan is to allow the customer to select amount/type of data they wish
> to
> purchase, enter their credit card info, submit to the credit card company,
> receive conformation from the credit card company, send them the data via
> email
> and allow them to log in to access their data on-line. Coming up with the
> code
> to allow the customer find the data they are looking for isn't the
> problem; it's
> figuring out how to send payment information, receiving that information
> that
> I'm having some difficulties figuring out. We run our own server and are
> building everything up in .net/SQL2000 - I just have never dealt with the
> on-line credit card transactions before.