NYCPHP Meetup

[Rolan Yang]

aaron at aarond.com wrote:

>I know there have been talks about online merchant processors, but can anyone
>recommend one that will handle pharmaceutical related products?  My client says
>he will just be selling home health care products and not prescriptions, but
>seems to keep getting his applications denied.
>
>I need one that uses Auth.net, or will sync up to it. (I've only done one other
>online store before)
>
>He even had someone deny him on the basis that there is a graphic in the design
>
>  
>
Someone on the list mentioned Paypal Website Pro earlier. If you don't 
HAVE to use auth.net, Paypal is currently letting anyone apply and there 
is no monthly fee until 2/1/06. The new paypal feature doesn't require 
the end user to have a paypal account or even know that paypal is in the 
background doing the processing. It's pretty much like Verisign payflow 
pro (which, BTW, Ebay acquired recently). They also have a virtual 
terminal so you can enter transactions in by hand. The downside is that 
paypal charges 2.9%+30cents/transaction where as many other auth.net 
merchants accounts charge roughly 2.1%+25c/transaction. Oscommerce and 
miva both support the new paypal pro api. I was thinking of writing a 
generic interface for use with Zencart and other shopping carts over the 
next few days.

~Rolan