Sage Pay and osCommerce have partnered to release certified versions of the Sage Pay Form, Server and Direct payment modules to the osCommerce community. This partnership enables merchants to securely process card transactions with the UK’s largest indepenent payment service provider whilst utilising Sage Pay’s latest protocol and product offerings.
The Sage Pay Server module has been updated to include the recently released iframe capability which offer merchants a seamless checkout flow without the customer perception of being redirected away to a hosted payment page. This solution also minimises PCI compliance requirements as no card data is ever stored, processed or transmitted from the merchant’s website.
The certified modules will be included as standard modules in the osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 release and are available now as add-ons for existing store owners from v2.2 Milestone 2 onwards.
The certified modules are available for free at the osCommerce Add-Ons site:
http://addons.oscommerce.com/service/sage_pay
To compliment the release of the new modules, Sage Pay are offering all osCommerce merchants an introductory 3 months free gateway fees for new Sage Pay sign ups, designed to save osCommerce users money on their transaction processing costs.
OFFER: 3 months free unlimited Sage Pay processing when you sign up to Sage Pay – Saving a minimum of £60! Promotion code “osc223″ Apply here!
Amazon Payments is proud to be a Corporate Sponsor of osCommerce! We look forward to enhancing the Checkout by Amazon solution with the osCommerce community for an even better customer buying and store owner selling experience.
Checkout by Amazon is a complete e-commerce checkout solution that provides your customers with the same secure and trusted checkout experience available on Amazon.com today. It offers unique features including Amazon’s 1-Click®; and tools for businesses to manage shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including refunds, cancellations, and chargebacks.
You can now integrate Checkout by Amazon with your osCommerce based online store using the latest certified versions of our add-ons:
Free Processing Offer!
We are pleased to offer free payment processing through September 30, 2009 to businesses and organizations that begin accepting Amazon Payments using Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay. If you haven’t signed up yet, learn more and sign up today. See details, terms and conditions of the offer here.
Free Webinar!
Checkout by Amazon: Inviting Amazon customers to shop on your site
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
In this webinar we will introduce you to Checkout by Amazon. We will talk about the important features of Checkout by Amazon and demonstrate the customer experience. We will also highlight how you can use our osCommerce add-ons to integrate with Checkout by Amazon. If you are a merchant, a solution provider or a developer working with merchants, this webinar is for you.
Register Now!
Feel free to contact us with questions/comments/feedback in our support channel on the osCommerce community support forums:
http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showforum=72
The new community add-ons site is now live which aims to replace the current contributions section on the support site by providing additional features to help developers maintain their add-on packages.
The new site will be rolled out in 3 stages with the first stage contemplating the existing contributions section. In addition, community members and developers can help clean the structure of add-on packages by reporting uploads to be removed.
The following changes are planned for the second and third stages of updating the new site:
2nd Stage Updates:
- register_globals compatibility flag for 2.2-RC1 and 2.2-Final installations
- Maintainers can assign their add-ons as public or private to allow or disallow additional uploads from other community members
- If an add-on is private, maintainers can assign other community members as maintainers who are allowed to upload files to the package
3rd Stage Updates:
- Allow maintainers to edit descriptions
- Allow maintainers to link their uploads to a forum topic (for support)
- Allow maintainers to upload screenshots of the add-on in action
- Allow maintainers to link to other add-ons as a “related” feature
- Allow community members to adopt an inactive add-on
The new community add-ons site can be reached at:
http://addons.oscommerce.com
We look forward to rolling out the additional features in the coming weeks and look forward to the additional suggestions the community has for improving the experience of finding, downloading, and contributing additional add-on packages.
The Saferpay payment module I first worked on for the new post-transaction action features of 3.0 was implemented with a program Saferpay provides that is used to communicate to the payment gateway. The use of this program is similar to using cURL but had the disadvantage that it had to be manually installed and that the output of the program had to be saved to a file.
Creating the files was no problem as it was easily done in the osCommerce working directory, and deleted as soon as it was no longer needed.
I previously blogged about implementing an additional Saferpay module that uses SOAP to communicate to the payment gateway, which did not require the use of the “saferpay” binary.
When I started to look into it, I did not understand the documentation provided of how the system works and asked Saferpay for help. They suggested that I use a more simpler approach as setting up the module would have been too technical for store owners to achieve, and forwarded me the necessary documentation. I did not know of this simpler method beforehand and was thrilled that they provided yet another means of being able to communicate to their gateway.
The simpler approach uses normal HTTPS POST connections to communicate to their gateway, and is common for payment service providers to use.
I agree that setting up a SOAP based module would have been too technical seeing that most store owners that use the PayPal IPN module have not set it up with the Encrypted Web Payments feature it supports. And that, in contrast, is pretty easy to setup.
I’ve now updated the Saferpay Credit Card, ELV (bank transfer), and Virtual Terminal payment modules to use the HTTPS POST method, with all 3 modules retaining the same functionality and post-tranaction actions as introduced earlier.