StoreFront 5.0 Manual - StoreFront Support - LaGarde, Inc.
StoreFront 5.0 Manual - StoreFront Support - LaGarde, Inc.
StoreFront 5.0 Manual - StoreFront Support - LaGarde, Inc.
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<strong>StoreFront</strong> <strong>5.0</strong><br />
Processing Orders and Billing Transactions<br />
<strong>StoreFront</strong> has integrated support for two different categories of transaction processing. The<br />
first is called Email Merchant Processing. In Email Merchant Processing, your customers<br />
will place orders in your site and you will receive a confirmation email for each order. The<br />
confirmation email will contain a link to the Online Sales Reporting Tools, which will allow you<br />
to immediately retrieve a report for the order. You can then complete the transaction manually<br />
with a credit card terminal. There are two possible disadvantages to Email Merchant Processing:<br />
• This method will not validate or check any transactions using electronic checks,<br />
credit, or debit cards. A customer may be able to place an order in your site using a<br />
form of payment that is not valid, but you won’t know until you’ve already attempted to<br />
complete the transaction.<br />
• <strong>Manual</strong>ly processing each and every order with a credit card terminal can become<br />
time consuming if your site has heavy ordering traffic.<br />
Email Merchant Processing, however, uses the default mail functions of <strong>StoreFront</strong>, and so<br />
does not require the purchase of any additional services. It is usually adequate for most small<br />
businesses.<br />
The second main category of transaction processing that is supported by <strong>StoreFront</strong> <strong>5.0</strong><br />
includes a selection of more than 11 different payment processing services. These are services<br />
that you can purchase from various providers that will automatically handle debit and<br />
credit card transactions. Orders placed in your site will already have been billed before they<br />
reach you. You must purchase the service from a provider.<br />
Read the following pages to learn how to process orders using Email Merchant Processing, or<br />
to learn more about using online payment processing services.<br />
<strong>StoreFront</strong> <strong>5.0</strong> supports a variety of different payment processing services. This section<br />
describes the configuration tasks for each service. <strong>LaGarde</strong>, <strong>Inc</strong>. plans to continue integrating<br />
new payment processing services with <strong>StoreFront</strong> <strong>5.0</strong>. Please check www.<strong>StoreFront</strong>.net<br />
regularly for updates.<br />
Note: as technology evolves, the configuration requirements for some payment processing<br />
services may change. Please check www.<strong>StoreFront</strong>.net/software/support/sf5payprocs.htm for<br />
the latest instructions. The following instructions are current as of 02/2001<br />
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