This is my first post here so please be gentle 🙂

I'm in the process of an entire site redesign and have been contemplating a change in our shopping cart system. Currently, our shopping cart is run offsite and is not as customizable as we would like. Because of the nature of my site, where artists sell their merchandise, trying to customize the pre-packaged carts available has proven to be more of a headache than a help.

My next logical step would be to design a custom shopping cart system. I would use session control for cart functions, etc but the main issue is that I need to be able to tie in to Authorize.net in order to automatically take care of credit card transactions. Can anyone give me any guidance or maybe guides to look at for this build? Oh yeah. And my deadline is July 1st along with the redesign.

    Authorize.net has gateway specifications. Contact them (electronically or by phone) and they should be able to send you the specs on what you need to do to hold a conversation with their gateway. Note: this is specs on the conversation itself, not how the actual code must be assembled to hold the conversation. They might have some sample code, but I don't remember seeing any when I last played with them. Its not difficult to create code to work with their gateway. But it can take a little bit of work to figure out the specs and what you need to do...

    Your other option is to check to see if there is some libraries floating around that connect to authorize.net. Although if authorize.net made any changes to their gateway, you'll want to be sure you are using up to date code.

      Authorize.net has some great code samples on how to connect to their site for transactions. Just log into your account and search around for the links (SIM if I remember correctly).

        With code samples, I think I should be ok in designing this. Honestly, the shopping cart doesn't have to be extremely fancy. The inventory system is already setup. Our shipping rates got by price as opposed to weight so that should take many calculations out. Maybe this won't be as difficult as I thought.

          6 months later

          I am currently looking for a way to connect the Authorize.net gateway into the custom Flash form/cart... The PDF file does say that there are some samples, but that's not available...

          So, I was wondering if somebody can somehow show me the SIM sample files if you don't mind and if that's not illegal, of course... 🙂

          Just out of curiosity... Do they have developer support page or something???

          Thanks...

            Originally posted by cyanblue
            Just out of curiosity... Do they have developer support page or something???

            Yes, they do; but you have to be signed up to them and log in (and that's where those samples are). After all, if you're not registered to use their service you don't need the code, do you?

            and if that's not illegal, of course...

            http://www.authorizenet.com/company/use.php
            12 ACCESS TO PASSWORD PROTECTED/SECURE AREAS.
            Access to and use of password protected and/or secure areas of the Site is restricted to authorized users only. Unauthorized individuals attempting to access these areas of the Site may be subject to prosecution.

            Sheesh, I can find this stuff easily enough, and I've never even looked at their site before.

              Yup... That sounds fair enough... Thanks, Weedpacket... 🙂

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