Billing Fusion Comments

[CaribbeanChoice]

You are missing a vital component, a shopping cart application and/or integration with existing shopping carts.

What I see is BillingFusion creating one interface for various billing/payment services such as PayPal, 2Checkout, MoneyBookers, e-gold, StormPay, AuthorizeNet, etc. BilllingFusion does not actually have to handle the money to be useful. It just needs to make it easy to track orders and the payment status of each order, as well as provide a very simple interface for people to pay at.

I was actually thinking of writing my own version of this, except it was intended for my own use on my websites. I didn't think about offering it as a service to others, although I now that I think about it, I'm not the only one who needs this.

It would be nice if something like this already existed. Good idea and good luck. :)

You are missing a vital component, a shopping cart application and/or integration with existing shopping carts.

Oh integrating with current shopping carts and having its own shopping cart will be an essential component of it.

What I see is BillingFusion creating one interface for various billing/payment services such as PayPal, 2Checkout, MoneyBookers, e-gold, StormPay, AuthorizeNet, etc. BilllingFusion does not actually have to handle the money to be useful. It just needs to make it easy to track orders and the payment status of each order, as well as provide a very simple interface for people to pay at.

It is so hard to integrate fully and properly with PayPal and 2Checkout - they don't handle transactions the way they should. And stuff goes missing with them. I've tried developing scripts that works properly with them and it is impossible with 2checkout but is possible with PayPal but could be a lot better.

That's why I want to make my own that will work the way it is supposed to work.

[motorwatchercounter]

oscommerce has built in payment systems that work with most of the known on line card operators. This includes 2checkout and nochex. It has paypal built in also but you can get their integration from anywhere. There are also free download unofficial contributions on their site for other payment schemes not built in.

It may be worth a look. It is under GNU so using some of the payment modules may ease your workload.

Does it work with recurring subscriptions?

[motorwatchercounter]

I am not sure. I do believe that 2checkout offer this but other may not. They are also updating all the version 1 Clients to version2. There is a good forum and help there (if you can find it). I have found the easiest way of setting things up is to set the product up, Go half way through testing it and then taking the code. This enables all the currency variables to be set so you only get paid in Sterling (or Euro's in your case). The other way is to run a Cron on a database to send out after the period with payment links. this would allow any provider to pay on a time basis without having to check manually or to "forget" to bill.

[CaribbeanChoice]

I'm not sure if that functionality is in the main osCommerce code, but I think I remember someone creating a plugin for that.