Protx/Barclaycard - That is the question...

[Lee_Wallis]

Hi All,

My customer is going with Protx for his PSP (because i reccomended him too). He is with barclaycard and therefore called them to set up an account for accepting online payments.

When he called them, Barclaycard asked him to cut out Protx and take payments directly through barclaycard to save money.

Can actinic link straight to Barclaycard? And if so, how?? It would make sense to cut out Protx...

Cheers and merry xmas.

[leehack]

You can use Barclays (Secure Hosting) with actinic, if Barclaycard is no different to that or indeed what they are referring to, then yes you can.

[Lee_Wallis]

Cheers for quick reply mate.

Is Barclays the "Secure Hosting(EPDQ)" option in actinic? and is all i need his merchant number?

Cheers

[leehack]

That's the one yes. As for setting it up, this is one i have not done yet, but i believe from what i have read on the forum it is straightforward and no problems, in fact one of the better solutions.

They use secure hosting as they do not have their own secure gateway as i understand, kind of confusing a little the way it is named, would be nice to see Barclays mentioned somewhere.

[fergusw]

You will need:

1. Barclay's merchant account number
2. A Secure Hosting account

Secure Hosting is a 3rd party company that handles the transactions from the Actinic shopping cart to the Barclay's account.

Secure Hosting/Actinic
Secure Hosting / ePDQ

EDIT: Just noticed the ePDQ page no longer exists. It redirects you to Secure Hosting's own PSP gateway - the UPG! Perhaps it might be best to call Secure Hosting and check the ePDQ integration with Barclay's with them directly.

[Lee_Wallis]

Cheers again for a quick reply..

Sorry to sound like the village idiot in my next paragraph...

The customer is currently hosted with us on a standard server. Because barclaycard don't have their own secure gateway, does that mean that the server my customer is on needs to have a SSL Certificate? or does actinic just re-direct to Barclaycard in the Checkout stage when buying a product (like protx or paypal)..

This kind of stuff doesn't really sink in for me. Sorry to sound stupid..

[leehack]

If you use a PSP, then the secure part is something for you to not worry about as it is all done for you, unless you are feeling on the edge and have chosen PPP.

[Lee_Wallis]

Ah i see now.

That's obviously why we needed him to go through Protx, so he doesn't need a secure server! duh!

Thanks alot mate, you told me that in dummy terms and it really helped.

[fergusw]

To reiterate, Secure Hosting is the PSP in the example I described above i.e. as Lee said, they provide the secure pages for you.

To reiterate, both PROTX and Secure Hosting provide the security. With Barclay's ePDQ and Actinic you need Secure Hosting as an extra, in-between-step to process transactions.