Question: After taking the order in Zen Cart I want the Credit Card to be authorised but not charged to the customer until the goods have been shipped. I would anticipate the delay from order to shipping to be about a week. How do I go about this?
Answer: This largely depends on your choice of payment gateway, as to whether this option is offered or not. Most true Merchant Gateways offer this, including
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When I'm testing payments on my shop using PayPal Website Payments Standard, it takes me to a screen where I'm asked to login to my PayPal account. But, I don't want my customers to be asked to login. I want them to see clearly that they can pay via Credit Card instead of having
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Zen Cart has gateways built-in for: - Authorize.net AIM (SIM also supported, but AIM is recommended for its security benefits) - PayPal Website Payments Standard (IPN) - PayPal Express Checkout -
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When customers transfer from your site to the PayPal website, they are presented with a screen showing some of the details of their purchase. They are also given some fields in which to enter their PayPal username and password if they wish to pay using
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Zen Cart evaluates the credit card numbers you enter to see if they match the settings you have enabled in the Admin->Config->Credit Cards settings.
So, if you enter a MasterCard number, but have MasterCard turned off (in the Admin), then it will tell the customer "we don't accept that kind of card".
It doesn't matter which credit card gateway you have installed ... the same processing will reject disabled card-types before even sending to the merchant gateway.
Resolution: 1. Review your merchant account settings
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Question: I want to make use of 2CO, - 2CO says: "any shopping cart compatible with the Authorize.net parameter set, provided that it allows you to change the gateway URL" Can I use 2CO with Zen Cart ?
Answer: There is a community-contributed addon for 2CO to work with Zen Cart. You can
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