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Rob

In responce to your reply and with regard to my processing of credit card
payments then I will try to explain myself further.

At the moment I am using AC2K2 to take orders and when I get to the point of
confirming the customers order I have to print the credit card details out
and enter them on the terminal I have for the merchant account in the
office. The order is then finalised and an invoice printed for the customer
to recieve on delivery.

The code in my previous post was to see if anyone knew of an easy way in
which to output HTML code which is standardised but would have certain
variables such as the amount, customer name, expiry date, product
description etc. This way I could automate the process of the credit card
processing through a secure connection to Worldpays server.

Giving it some thought do you think it may be possible to have a browser
window on a form in the database. I can host a single page on a server then
have the information copy into the active fields on the page visible on the
form in the browser window.

Maybe there are some other options.. I am willing to put some work into this
because it will save hours of work over time. If you have time please have
a look at the integration options Worldpay have on offer and tell me which
one if any will work for me.

Thanks for your time,

Rob
 
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Rob, not sure if this sent just now!
I've sent it agin, just to be sure.
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In responce to your reply and with regard to my processing of credit card
payments then I will try to explain myself further.
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Rob said:
In responce to your reply and with regard to my processing of credit card
payments then I will try to explain myself further.
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Hi Rob

At the risk of sounding like a crabby schoolmaster :-) It is always
best to continue within the original thread. Most people monitor the
threads they answer, for a few days. If you continue within the
original thread, the people who replied, will see. But if you start a
*new* thread (as you have now done), it is very possible that the
people you are talking to, will just not see your post at all. That
very nearly happened, here. I had stopped monitoring your original
thread, because you hadn't replied to it. I only saw your new post, by
absolute chance. So write on the blackboard 3 times, "In future I will
continue within the original thread!" :-)

As I understand it, you do some data entry into your Access system,
then enter some credit card details onto your merchant terminal. You
would prefer to omit the manual entry into the merchant terminal, &
have your Access system simulate this by transferring the credid card
details through a secure connection to the relevant server. Could this
be done using a browser window in a form in the database, by copying
the relevant details into fields on the page displayed in that window.

Yes, I believe you could do that. The microsoft "webbrowser [< one
word] control" lets you implement web-browser-control-like
functionality within an Access form. You just drop a webbrowser
control, onto your form. Then you can use methods of the control to
make it do things programatically. For example, if you called the
control wbControl, this would navigate to the specified web page:

wbControl.Navigate "http://www.microsoft.com"

The control also exposes a comprehensive "document object model". This
lets you do nearly anything you want, with the page displayed by the
control. For example, you could programatically fill-out form fields,
then transmit the form to the web server.

I have done some basic testing of the above-described functionality,
but I have never sent credit card details to a secure server via
HTTPS. Maybe someone more experienced in these issues will jump in
here.

Try Googling on "webbrowser control" for more information. Also, I
*think* that I got my copy of the webbrowser control from the
Northwind database? Try to find a working example application, so you
can fool around with it, to see how it works.

Hope this all helps,
TC
 
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