I was just wondering hiow do companies that accept credit cards on their own site not through paypal how do you integrate this merchant into code, say if i want a person to sign up for a subscription which would only start on his 10th visit to the site, and the first payment would be taken right there and the billing cycle started from info submited on order date... Is there some special merchant account needed to have these live and interactive payment methods such as on Powweb.com or Ebay and other big companies that can do a lot more with taking orders and subscriptions... And if so please show me a link to this? I have several ideas that need some advanced merchant features and PayPal is just not advanced enough PS If you know how to do this in PayPal please tell me
You need a merchant account for your business. In Canada, I use BeanStream. The approval works the same way as Paypal with your server communicating with theirs a few times to verify everything went through with checksums.
does that integrate into websites so that the payments could start automatically on when the visitor uses the service 10 times?
That would be up to the progamming on your site to determine when to start charging the card provided.. so theoretically, sure.
Yeah I have no idea how code this I m going to get a guy off rent a coder to do it but I dont even know how to describe to him yet...what's the term for these type of merchants accounts that can be integrated Sorry for all the questions
You've got it right -- they are simply called "merchant accounts" or "electronic payment processing" or "real time transaction processing" Tell the coder you want to verify the user's card on registration but you don't want to start charging the card until the 10th time they use the service.