FN-FORUM: credit card payments without pages hosted on providers servers

date posted 2nd October 2006 10:57

Hello list,

I'm looking into various methods of processing payments online and just won=
dered if anyone has any experiance or recomendations based on what I want t=
o do.

Most of the payment providers I've looked at require a redirect to a page h=
osted on their servers when it comes to taking the actual card details. I'=
d like a service where all details are taken on our site (but not stored), =
then passed on to the payment providers for checking/storage, then a yes/no=
message returned. =20

If we use an 'API' from one of the providers we can do it that way, but tha=
t means we have to record all the transaction details and store them on our=
sever which needs to conform to 'PCIDSS' standards (which =3D =C2=A3=C2=A3=
=C2=A3), so its not really an option. There doesnt seem to be a half-way p=
oint between the two.

Cheers,
Chris