Hardcode Telephone Number?

[oldschoolrocker]

My payment gateway (Skipjack) seems to require a telephone number for cc authorizations. Basically, it just needs 10 digits. A rep told me that hard-coding a series of numbers would do the trick (e.g. 0000000000).

Of course I'm trying to avoid the customer Telephone Number requirement - I saw a reference to this in another post, but no details were provided...

So, can anyone tell me how to go about doing this? Would I need to add some code to the login & create_account templates? If so, what would that be?

Is there a way for that mock number to NOT show up in confirmation pages, e-mails, invoices, etc?

Thank you.

[Kim]

Getting the phone number is part of the account creation process- why not just pass the customer telephone number from that?

[oldschoolrocker]

Getting the phone number is part of the account creation process- why not just pass the customer telephone number from that?

Thanks for your reply, Kim. However, I'm not sure if I understand your meaning. Can you please explain further?