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• Processing Payments - Credit Cards
• Processing Payments - Other Options
• SSL Security

Processing Payments - Credit Cards

You can use the "-anacom" or "-ccn" options in the "holostore" command to instantly process payments to your customer's credit card.

The flag will be in the following format:

• To charge the transaction via Anacom, you must specify your merchant identification number and password with the "-anacom" option:
  {holostore -i widgets -d "Jumbo Pack of Widgets"
  -p 29.95 -anacom merchant_id merchant_password}

• To charge the transaction via Credit Card Network, you must specify your merchant identification number and password with the "-ccn" option:
  {holostore -i widgets -d "Jumbo Pack of Widgets"
  -p 29.95 -ccn merchant_id merchant_password}

  You must obtain and use a password for "transparent" transactions from Credit Card Network. This password is not necessarily the same password you use for manual transactions.

Processing Payments - Other Options

• -nocard

  When this flag is present, the customer is not asked for any credit card information or for a billing address.

  This flag may not be used with the "-anacom" or "-ccn" flag.

• -nocnp

  When this flag is present, the customer is not asked for his/her name and billing address, only for his/her credit card information.

• -regnum filename

  This option is generally used in conjuction with the "-a" option for allowing access to a password protected area of your site.

  When this flag is present, the customer is not asked for credit card or billing information when setting up a username and password. Instead he/she is asked for a registration number. If he/she enters a valid registration number, the transaction goes through, the customer's login information is set up, and he/she is allowed access.

  You can charge for access by using this option with a third party payment service similiar to a 900 number payment collection service, which has the advantage of anonymity for your customer and of automation for you. You could also simply instructing your customer to send you payment by check first. Then after processing the payment, you would send him/her a registration number and the URL of your InstantStore Page.

  After the customer enters the registration number, it is marked 'used' so that it may not be used again.

  All valid registration numbers must be listed in "filename". Registration numbers may be any ASCII string, but may not include whitespace (spaces, tabs, returns). You may include multiple registration numbers per line, separated by whitespace.

  So for example, "filename" might contain the lines:

  	123 456 789
  
  	999 888 777
  

  Each of these sets of numbers (6 in all) would be a valid registration number.

  Used registation numbers are automatically placed in "filename.used", one per line. You may edit this file as desired.

  This flag may not be used with the "-anacom" or "-ccn" flag, and it automatically sets the "-nocard" flag.

SSL Security

For SSL security, you may use the HoloNet secure key free of charge by using the "-holossl" option. When this flag is present, the store will go secure when asking for your customer's billing information.

For technical reasons, using the "-holossl" option requires that your store run under the "www.holonet.net" domain while in secure mode.

If you have your own SSL certificate for your domain, using this option is not necessary. The InstantStore will automatically go secure using your key and will run under your domain.

Obtaining your own certificate may entail additional fees.

For more information about SSL security and obtaining your own certificate, see our Secure Transactions page.