IMPORTANT NOTE: This module is NO LONGER included in Zen Cart because it does not meet PCI compliance requirements for ecommerce security. The BETTER alternative is to use a real live payment gateway service connected to your business merchant account.
Original now-obsolete article below:
There are several payment modules in Admin> Modules> Payment. Many of them are for payment-gateways where the customer's credit card is authorized automatically while they are online, and payment is deposited to your merchant-bank-account (which you set up with your bank) automatically.
However, if you wish to simply "collect" the customer's credit-card
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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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