I added code to a client’s website a while back to allow them to use First Data to take credit cards on their site. Everything was working well until last week when it just quit working. It was no longer communicating with First Data. It completely stopped receiving a response at all from the CURL …
Unfortunately, First Data’s Globa Gateway API doesn’t allow for recurring payments. You either have to use their hosted payment pages (not a viable option for most of my clients) OR you have to roll your own so to speak. Using the TransArmor Token option, it is possible to write your own code for recurring payments. …
I’m having more First Data quirks today. I have a love/hate relationship with this company. I hate them because their documentation sucks and it’s really hard to figure anything out. But, I love them because it’s hard to figure it out so it brings me quite a bit of traffic to my blog 🙂 Today …
One of my most popular posts of all time is about integrating First Data payment processing with a website. I’ve had several clients who have First Data accounts and they’ve seemed happy with their account, so I decided to give them a try. OMG I wish I hadn’t. It cost me SO much money. It …
I have a First Data Merchant account. I wanted to add a payment page to my WordPress website. I created the form with Gravity Forms which would allow me to pass variables for the item they are paying for, the amount, and the quantity. I also wanted the form to allow them to fill in …
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I have a client who wanted to pass his Gravity Forms information to his First Data Hosted Payment page. He had already set up the form on his site and the payment page in his First Data account, he just needed me to make the Gravity Form work with that payment page. I set his …
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One of my clients needed me to add First Data Merchant account processing to Gravity Forms in WordPress. I had gotten the First Data Merchant account working and explained how I did that in this post. I’m not going to change much of the First Data code from that post. I will just be discussing …
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DISCLAIMER: I WILL NEVER USE FIRST DATA AGAIN AND WILL TRY TO DISCOURAGE MY CLIENTS. THEIR CHARGES ARE RIDICULOUS. THEY MAY BE BETTER FOR RETAIL, BUT, IN MY EXPERIENCE WITH WEB INTEGRATION, THEY ARE WAY EXPENSIVE. USE STRIPE.COM INSTEAD. READ MORE HERE I have a client with a First Data merchant account. She has also …
While moving WordPress sites from one domain to another for my clients, I often run into file size limitations on phpMyAdmin. Depending on the hosting account I’m moving to, I can sometimes change that limitation with the php.ini file or import from the command line. But, sometimes, I don’t have access to those methods and …
My client has digital products that need to be downloaded after a user clicks on a PayPal Buy Now button. If I set Payment Data Transfer up in her PayPal account, PayPal will return back to my site to a page that I specify in her PayPal account. It will return all the information about …
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