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Topic: Credit Card Processing

Are there any services that can integrate with FrontAccounting so we can bill our customers credit cards from within the FrontAccounting system and apply those payments to the invoices?

  • joe
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Re: Credit Card Processing

You can use PayPal and AlertPay (AlertPay needs a one-line implementation).

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Re: Credit Card Processing

Does this implementation for Paypal only support the customer paying with a Paypal account, or can we manually put in the credit card number to bill ourselves?  We take our orders over the phone, so people won't be doing it online.

Is there any documentation available on how to implement Paypal?

Thanks,
Eugene

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Re: Credit Card Processing

The PayPal implementation is very simple. A PayPal link is put on the Sales Invoice. This is done by a selection when printing the Sales Invoice. If the customer do not have a PayPal account, they can pay be Credit/Debit Card.
You can then establish PayPal as a Bank Account in FrontAccounting. This way it is very easy to take the Bank Deposit.

I am not sure if this is what you want, Other implementations have to be written as a module.

/Joe

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Re: Credit Card Processing

Is the paypal method made for paypal pro?  If so the charge is $30.00 per month for this service.

Strip would be better...  Here is their list of integration's, but FA is not there: https://stripe.com/docs/integrations on the left is a menu that has links to some development sections.

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Re: Credit Card Processing

If there is a url for the specific e-commerce payment gateway, then it can replace the PayPal link in FA.

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  • alvin
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Re: Credit Card Processing

Thanks apmuthu,

What about an api?  How much trouble would it be to use?

Info here: https://stripe.com/docs

Please let me know,

Alvin

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Re: Credit Card Processing

FA sports a variety of APIs - SOAP / Restful APIs are listed in the wiki.

You can engage a developer to do it and submit it back to the project or better still, ask those at Stripe if they will make a plugin for FA for the community to use their payment services.

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