Creating HTML POST form to take payments without using Shopping cart.

[zerocool]

Hi All,

I am trying to create a HTML form so that customers can "Add Funds" to their account. Basically customers can go to "My Account" and from their they will have links to "Add Funds" and "withdraw funds". The Add Funds Page will have selection of payment options like Pay by Credit card using 2CO or some other payment provider. Customer putin the amount to add to their account and I do a POST to the Payment Gateway, Receive the response and process it and update the database.

Question1 - Is their a module available which can do this?
Question2 - Can someone suggest what should be stored in the database when the user hits the submit button and go to the Payment Gateway page. In general need help understanding the different possible scenarios on how to store the transaction information once the user hits the submit button and once when I get a response from the payment gateway.
Question 3 - Does anyone has a sample database schema with the HTML form to do the functionality described above...

I am relatively new to zen-cart and would appreciate your help and patience with my queries....thanks

[rambo]

If you are trying to do something like istockphoto.com where a user has credits...Standardize the amounts for adding funds. Create products for each fund level. Once they have purchased the $10 fund, you will know that because they will be in your database as a customer for that particular product (see admin>customers>orders. You'll have to set up your own tracking from that point, basically assigning a value of 10 to the customer id, and then subtracting one credit each time they use your service until they are out and have to purchase again. As far as the one click purchase. Get over that idea. You could store the credit card data in the database, but it is insecure and if your database gets compromised your customers will have your *** on a platter. Just have them sign up as users when they purchase the credits, then they will only have to reenter cc info on future purchases. This is how istockphoto.com does it as well as most companies. BTW Amazon has a patent on one click shopping.

Mike

[zerocool]

Mike, thanks for responding..

In general, you have got the right idea about what I am trying to accomplish..
But I want to give the users the option to specify the FUND amount to add to their account ( with in a specified range). Also the user will have the option to withdraw funds as well ( not that I want that but that will be an option).

Now to clarify on the points you have made--
a) I did experiment the idea of creating Virtual products and selling as credits.
b) Also experimented with the idea of using GIFT certificates to give users the funds in his/her account..
c) I am not planning to store any user credit card info in my database. I just want to pass the parameters required by the Payment Gateway.

Is istockphoto using zencart at their site ??
....thanks

[rambo]

No. Istockphoto is not using Zencart.

I don't know how you are going to pay the customer back (withdraw funds). I would estimate that this is so custom that you shouldn't even bother with zencart and should consider custom programming from scratch.