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Julio Salvat
Courses Plus Student 3,314 PointsBuilding a Shopping cart
I was wondering if anyone had some advice in building a shopping cart that would tie in a merchant account and be able to pay with your credit card or paypal account options. The purchase would go to a merchant account and not a paypal account.
6 Answers
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest TeacherThat's a great way to do it. You'll want to use a merchant account that has an API you can integrate with so that people don't have to leave your site to complete the transaction. I recommend logging details about every request to the API so you'll have them if something goes wrong, but be sure not to log credit card numbers or other sensitive information in that log.
Julio Salvat
Courses Plus Student 3,314 PointsThanks for the response man! Do you have any documentation or a tutorial that I can go through to accomplish this?
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest TeacherThe merchant should be able to provide you documentation for how to interact with their API. What merchant are you using?
Julio Salvat
Courses Plus Student 3,314 PointsMy Client is using Network Merchant INC https://www.nmi.com/
I am just not sure where to start I can build the whole site with no issues. I am front-dev / designer with limited php knowledge. Any help would be much appreciated thanks in advance.
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest TeacherI would probably recommend against trying to code an integration with a third-party API to process credit card transactions for an ecommerce website to someone with limited server-side programming experience. It's just not a simple task. If you have to code it, I would get in touch with the merchant and see what kind of documentation and suggestions they can give you. They may have a library already written that you can use to handle the integration.
Julio Salvat
Courses Plus Student 3,314 PointsWill do thank you!