Need help with Virtual Merchant module

[ThePatch]

The only potential concern I would see with that method is the 'ficklness' of the DCC system. It only works on certain currencies and even then it relies solely on the Bin range of the card. Bin ranges change from time to time so the DCC option may not be tripped.

Or well, I guess you accounted for that if the 'id' stamp is not returned. Does your process negate the pop up from happening at all?

[Techiant]

Has anyone tested this with v1.3.8?

Thanks

[missb]

I am needing some serious help. I am to the point of pulling my hair out. we currently have my virtual merchant to process our cards. when testing we are receiving the error code 4003.
My question is how do we find the address to put in to the referrel page on our virtual merchant site to have the orders go through? I have put several in already and they are not working. Do they need to be https or can it be http. we currently don't have our site secure till we move our site to our secure domain name. does it need to be a secure address to work? please help!!!!

[ThePatch]

Since there's a lot of information missing here I'm going to guess you're getting an invalid referrer URL error message. You have a few different options; you can turn off referring url's; this would just take care of the issue in the matter of a button click. You said your URL is going to change so it might be wise to turn it off in the short term until your site moves to where it's going to be. You'll need to determine if your server is passing a referring url at all and if so what is it. Umm . . . making sense so far?

[rtw819]

Has anyone tested this with v1.3.8?

Thanks

There have been no reported problems on v1.3.8a

[rtw819]

I am needing some serious help. I am to the point of pulling my hair out. we currently have my virtual merchant to process our cards. when testing we are receiving the error code 4003.
My question is how do we find the address to put in to the referrel page on our virtual merchant site to have the orders go through? I have put several in already and they are not working. Do they need to be https or can it be http. we currently don't have our site secure till we move our site to our secure domain name. does it need to be a secure address to work? please help!!!!

I would strongly recommend securing your site since card numbers being entered on your site will be in the clear unless your site is using an SSL certificate and customers are using https:// in their browsers.

When you're ready to set up the referrer setting, this might be useful info:

Q: I get the following error when I try to check out:
"4003 - HTTP Referrer Invalid"

A: You must set up a valid referrer in your VM Web Terminal Configuration.
You should set your Web Terminal up with a simple https://mysite.com URL.

Go to the Terminal -> Advanced -> System Setup menu options:
- MUST Enable HTTP Transactions: (check box)
- DO set up the HTTP Referrer security option in your Elavon VM configuration.
(Add your site as a Referrer to the list of authorized referrers!)
Add ONLY your SSL-based website domain name in the VM Terminal settings.
Do not include any cart path or subfolder information in this setting.

Referrer Example: https://www.yoursite.com

Hope this helps!

[missb]

Since there's a lot of information missing here I'm going to guess you're getting an invalid referrer URL error message. You have a few different options; you can turn off referring url's; this would just take care of the issue in the matter of a button click. You said your URL is going to change so it might be wise to turn it off in the short term until your site moves to where it's going to be. You'll need to determine if your server is passing a referring url at all and if so what is it. Umm . . . making sense so far?

correct i am getting the invalid referrer url error message. My boss is afraid to turn off the referring urls due to he is afraid that our account will have charges that are not from our site. I'm completely new to all of this. Learning as I go. How do i determine if my server is passing a referrer? How in the world would i know what it is? Is it not working because we do not have a secure url at the moment?

[missb]

I would strongly recommend securing your site since card numbers being entered on your site will be in the clear unless your site is using an SSL certificate and customers are using https:// in their browsers.

When you're ready to set up the referrer setting, this might be useful info:

Q: I get the following error when I try to check out:
"4003 - HTTP Referrer Invalid"

A: You must set up a valid referrer in your VM Web Terminal Configuration.
You should set your Web Terminal up with a simple https://mysite.com URL.

Go to the Terminal -> Advanced -> System Setup menu options:
- MUST Enable HTTP Transactions: (check box)
- DO set up the HTTP Referrer security option in your Elavon VM configuration.
(Add your site as a Referrer to the list of authorized referrers!)
Add ONLY your SSL-based website domain name in the VM Terminal settings.
Do not include any cart path or subfolder information in this setting.

Referrer Example: https://www.yoursite.com

Hope this helps!

I do currently have our current site, example: http://www.yoursite.com as one of our referrers. but i also have others. should i delete the other referrers and see if just the basic url will work? we plan to secure the site once we transfer over to our other url. we are using an unsecure site to build our new website and work out the kinks before transfering over to our company live url. am i making any sense?

[rtw819]

I do currently have our current site, example: http://www.yoursite.com as one of our referrers. but i also have others. should i delete the other referrers and see if just the basic url will work? we plan to secure the site once we transfer over to our other url. we are using an unsecure site to build our new website and work out the kinks before transfering over to our company live url. am i making any sense?

Yep, makes perfect sense. Your server, more specifically the VM Enhanced Payment Module (which I wrote), does send a Referrer to Elavon when processing card transactions for security purposes. The VMEPM code uses the Zen environment variable HTTPS_SERVER as the referrer when submitting payments to Elavon. Even though you may not be using the SSL address yet, trying adding the "https://www.yoursite.com" as your referrer.

Also, another way to look at this... Do you have the VM Payment Module logging turned on? If so, take a peek at your VM payment transaction logs on your store's server and look for the "Referrer:" entry in the logs. You will want to add that entry which is being displayed in the log, verbatim, to your VM Web Terminal System Setup. This is the actual value being sent to Elavon to match against.

Hope we're still making sense? :)

[shady_gun]

wow what a thread.........rtw and thepatch you guys rock...........