Search Again: Re: PC Authorize and Stuff From: John Macleod Date: Sunday, October 4, 1998 Time: 12:29:52 pm Do you have/or could you setup a deal with Tellan Software to provide us with PC or Mac (need to keep the Mac guys happy) Authorize at a lower cost? Just thought that it would be a possibility... Thanks, John *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 9/29/98, at 6:13 PM, Shawn Hogan wrote: >Okay... a bunch of stuff to blab about... > >Is anyone using PC Authorize for their transactions? > >It looks pretty nice, and they have a new plug-in that I'll be able to >integrate with Optigold ISP that allows seamless integration. > >They also have a PC Authorize Hub version that allows for workstations to >authorize credit cards in real time through their lcoal network in real >time (there is a central hub that actually does it). But the coolest >thing is that it will have the ability to return BACK to Optigold if it >was approved, declined, etc. > >Should be interesting... just wanted to let people know for the ones >using PC Authorize or for people who want a cool hub system so any >workstation can authorize credit cards, you may want to look at PC >Authorize Hub (www.tellan.com). > >The ability of the credit card system to talk BACK to Optigold has me all >giddy... {grin} I can now do some cool things I've wanted to... Like if >you were using it, you could do away with the Payment Queue, since it >would automatically post the good ones. I could also make an automated >tasks that can run the billing batches at night automatically or >something with the Hub (like how you can automatically schedule a time to >generate invoices). > >All I know is that PC Authorize Hub looks totally AWESOME. > >I've also been playing with the ODBC/SQL plug-in that is part of the new >version of FileMaker Pro 4.1. Unfortunately, it's only a one-way pipe >(extracting data from ODBC/SQL databases). The next version I've been >promised will have the ability to write back *and* (this is the cool >part) have other apps read data via ODBC/SQL... so like you could >authenticate directly from the Optigold ISP database, etc. So that is >something I'm going to be looking at as soon as it's available. > >And lastly... the SSL capable version of Web Companion almost >completed... So I'm going to be expanding the web interface for use when >it's here. Like give it the ability for customers to edit their billing >cycle if they want to change services, etc. Maybe make a basic way for >employees to look up customers on the web, etc. Should be interesting... >{shrug} > >Pretty boring stuff... eh? :-) > > - Shawn > >------------------------------- >Shawn D. Hogan >President, Data Point Solutions >http://www.data-point.com >(619) 452-3696 >ICQ: 8319647 ><> < > < > < > < > < > <>< -- Mr. John C. Macleod, MCP -- If it breaks, I fix it... If it wants to break, I prevent it... If it needs to break, I get a hammer!!!

Messages In This Thread: PC Authorize and Stuff by Shawn Hogan on Sep 29, 1998 at 6:17:08 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by Bob Gelety on Sep 29, 1998 at 7:40:11 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by Shawn Hogan on Sep 29, 1998 at 7:49:17 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by Richard Brodsky on Sep 29, 1998 at 8:13:20 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by Shawn Hogan on Sep 29, 1998 at 9:04:10 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by Alexi Touloumis on Sep 29, 1998 at 9:45:16 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by Shawn Hogan on Sep 29, 1998 at 9:55:33 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by John Macleod on Oct 4, 1998 at 12:29:52 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by Shawn Hogan on Oct 4, 1998 at 1:20:39 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by Walter Carter on Oct 4, 1998 at 1:40:55 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by Shawn Hogan on Oct 4, 1998 at 2:33:00 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by Alexi Touloumis on Oct 4, 1998 at 3:53:38 pm Re: PC Authorize and Stuff by John Macleod on Oct 4, 1998 at 7:16:09 pm