Thanks so much for taking the time to reply but that fix leaves the site with unapproved saving of credit card info on the site and e-mailing part of the card #s, which I understand is not very secure.
We are using Elevon formerly Nova systems to process the cards. there must be a way to send the information collected by the zen cart shopping cart to them in a secure manner. just havent found it yet. I am hoping some one has a solution.
Zen Cart has many great features and I couldn't began to create anything like it so I hate to complain, but, Not have a provision for any but the zen cart affiliates is not a good thing. I wonder how many others build a site spend lots of hours and then go to configure the credit card handling and find out there is no way to use the processor they have chosen. Very discouraging!!

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