hello all i have a script that accepts egold payments but i want to change it to alertpay,what is involved in doing this, thanks
I think check out Alertpay own API will be better. Both work different. Some where in Alertpay website will have checkout script to integrate to your website. Hope there indeed is. If you cannot work with that, just hire a freelancer with php expertise, he/she will be able to help you out.
im looking at alert pays integration,there is a code to generate a subscribe button,an instant payment notification,and an alert pay programming interface-would i need all 3?
It depends on what you need. For example, I assume you just want single item check-out process (since you worked with E-gold and Egold almost just offered that much). So what do you need is: . A "Buy now" button for user to click. . Instant payment notification (Yes, you need this one). And that's all you need from Alertpay. I will explain a little about how a general payment gateway works (egold or Alertpay in your case). _ Customers click button to buy _ They are redirected to Alertpay "making payment" interface. _ They will complete the process in Alertpay sites, then when transaction succeeds, Alertpay will use instant payment notification (IPN) to let your site knows that payment has been made. And the code to process the information sent from IPN is your own work. I hope there will be example in Alertpay sites, or some kind of guide there. My honest suggestion is if you are unskilled about server-side coding, especially security, you definitely need an pro coder, or even a team when your site is huge. Those shopping cart API can be very tricky sometimes.
I would suggest you to go with IPN. As you can get all the details of transaction through their post back URL. You can create a callback.php file for getting the transaction information. The subscription is used for the recurring payment option. You can enable that too using their API calls.