Say I want to set up a membership site with all the monthly billing shizzz. I assume it's possible for a payment gateway to shoot your DB a message when someones card expires. In allthe info I've found they seem to neglect mentioning this.
Am I mistaken? Can anyone point me to a provider that makes it blatently obvious that this is possible?
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technically I don't know how it works but I do know that the gateway checks expiry date and sends the user an error/alert message. It's none of your business when someones card expires, that's personal info. You just create the bill and rec'v notification when the transaction has been completed against that invoice. Not paying an invoice because of card expiry is no different to not paying it for any other reason i.e. not transaction occurs.
What I'm asking is can they send your db an auto notification that a card has expired so you can write a script to automatically cancel the subscription. I'm not going to store any cc info on in the db except for the last 4 digits so they can see what card the used because once a cc is sent through for recurrig you don't need any of that info to be sitting there on your server. You just need a pass/fail for that card on a month to month basis - just wondering if the proccessor will sent automatic notification that a specific order numbers payment went through that month or not. May be for an expired card, name change, closed cc account, dispute on charge etc etc
Why not just set up a debit order system? I've used this, and I can get an automated report what went through or what failed.
That makes more sense. I doubt any facility will notify anyone else except the owner that a cc has expired (for privacy reasons). A failed transaction is a different story.
authorize.net, paypal, etc should have capabilities for recurring payment scheduling. have used dotnetcharge in the past and integration has always been simple, according to their version releases they support some recurring payment processing:http://www.dotnetcharge.com/whatsnew.htm. You'd have to track down the sdk to see what is available.
Originally posted by: tenPlus That makes more sense. I doubt any facility will notify anyone else except the owner that a cc has expired (for privacy reasons). A failed transaction is a different story.
Yeh. All I want is a 1 or a 0 from the processor each month for each account