How can I create an iCredit payment module?

[gunni]

Hi,
I want to accept credit cards in my site but not through Paypal.
The company (iCredit) that gives me this service does not have ready module for Zen Cart.
They gave me the API details and I need to connect my site to them.
Is there any ready module like Paypal in Zen Cart so I only need to put in the details ?
Like paypal, the customer will be forward to the company's secure page and after the payment the customer should returns
to my Zen Cart store.

[mc12345678]

There are "examples" of how this process works for different payment processors, and while many may be similar, there are also a lot of differences pretty much because the various APIs are so different. Not sure that there currently is such a "handler" to take any old payment processor's method and apply it to the store other than the payment class structure provided in ZC and the various access points throughout the checkout process...

That said, you would want to find a sample set of code that at least partially operates as expected by your new proposed processor.

For example, WePay offers a way for the customer to go "off-site" but within the current browser once the customer has selected the payment option of WePay and on the way to checkout_confirmation. Meaning customer payment data is collected before the confirmation page. Then once the confirmation is accepted, the payment is actually processed and the checkout_success page is loaded. It's been a while since I looked at why that is, but I believe it has to do with how/when it returns back to ZC and that without incorporating some sort of additional parameters or other in site checks, that order of operations is easily supported.

This is in contrast to at least PayPal express where payment information can be collected after the checkout_confirmation page has been selected. There is also what is it payez that has been added to ZC 1.5.5? It has a process flow, but also understand that some of these things have been built with a great deal of consideration and idea of full/broad capability.

[gunni]

Thanks MC,
Thought (hoped) there is a simple Zen Cart module to enter the numbers...

The iCredit company made modules for other Carts. Maybe you could tell me which is the most similar to
Zen Cart and I will ask the company to send me the module.
Please have a look at the available modules for other carts here: https://icredit.rivhit.co.il/plugins
You could not see in this link the plugin, just the carts they have made the module for.
Then, I would ask them to send me the plugin.

[gunni]

Would it be OK if I put those names here?

[mc12345678]

So, I think the image(s) already posted at the link given are enough, but I don't exactly see what the problem would be. A moderator could remove them if later deemed an issue (or might get filtered just because.)

That said and while not on this thread, I saw a post by RodG recently that described the current situation. There is a bunch of code available, but it's not yet put together to offer the final feature(s). Sure, obtaining a copy of the code for one (or more) of the other platforms might offer some assistance, but may also require researching how that particular store operates/implements the code/API. There are payment modules available in the ZC code, some more robust/structured than others, but they too tend to have come from an API of some sort as well.

I mean maybe OpenCart? I thought it was one that also had their code available via github so that you could install and see how it all operates, but.. There are a lot of factors that go into the "ability" to make it all happen, but plenty of open source code out there as well from which to gain understanding and begin/continue implementing.

[gunni]

Thanks MC,
I thought that there is a basic module for Zen Cart that Zenners could put the basic details inside like Paypal module.
Did not think that each Credit Card company needs her special codes.
Will continue to search how this could be done. thanks.