credit card processing on unix with fp

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> elestial.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Palmquist
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 10:21 AM
> To: Tyler
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> Subject: Re: credit card processing on unix with fp
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> Tyler wrote:
> > When I was looking a year ago, there simply weren't any good cc 
> > processing app alternatives for UNIX.  We did something similar to 
> > Richard Kreiss: we generate some XML files, dump them in a shared 
> > directory for a Windows app to process, then read the XML output 
> > coming into a second directory back into filePro.
> 
> This has to be a slow solution.  Does the application support TCP/IP. 
> Then you could do this with sockets.
> 
> Nancy

My processing take about 3 seconds a card that includes writing out the xml,
reading it back, and updating the results to the transaction being
processed.

The windows program we are interfacing to is "YourPay".  One problem we had
is they demanded xml but are returning pseudo xml.  Don't ask.

There arte 2 to 3 card runs per day.  Since there is a possibility of 2
transaction being run using the same card, 2 different family members, we
can only run one of these at a time otherwise the second one is marked as a
fraud.  My select processing checks the transactions selected  (sorted by
card #) and only selects the first card using that card #.  If there are
more one card be processed in the last run =, those cards are pushed into
the next days run.  Select processing checks the time and if it is after 3
PM, the run date is changed to the next business day.

On average, at the start of a month about 250 to 300 plus transactions are
processed.  This number is growing.  The processing time is under 20
minutes.

Richard Kreiss