Over the course of my career, I have worked with many entities in the payment processing industry. This includes merchant account providers, payment gateway providers, ACH/E-check providers, processing networks, acquiring banks, gift card providers, ATM providers, etc.
Some of these organizations have some of the brightest and best programmers I've seen on staff. Some of these organizations are entirely based upon technology (i.e. Gateway providers.) Yet of these, there are an extremely few that are helpful to the development community.
Many of them provide poor documentation, poor support, inflexibility, poor reporting, no examples, no development assistance, etc, etc.
Why is this? Mostly it's because the programmers on staff at most payment processing entities spend 100% of their time working on internal systems. They have not "walked the walk" - they have not lived a day in the application developers shoes. It comes down to a basic lack of understanding of the development communities needs.
If you are an application developer, whether you are developing in PHP, ASP, .NET, Access, FileMaker, Flash, etc, a few things would make your lives easier.
- Good complete documentation.
- Complete an easy to use example integrations in your preferred platform
- Multiple methods of integration, so a developer can choose the best one suited to their needs.
- Access to developers to advise, assist, or even perform integration.
- A feature rich gateway, giving many automation options.
- A reporting API for custom reporting
Most web developers - PHP, ASP, .NET, ColdFusion, etc - have encountered and addressed the payment processing question as a necessity, but don't fully take advantage of the possibilities. Most database developers - FileMaker, Access, 4D, FoxPro, etc - have stayed away from integrating payment processing into their applications, simply because there is no organization that makes it easy for them.
This is the basic premise of NELiX TransaX. We are the developer friendly payment solution provider. We grew organically from an application development firm. We understand the needs of the developer and we can not only meet, but we can exceed those needs.
When a developer partners with NELIX TransaX to bring payment processing to their customers, they get:
- The ability to bring new features and automation options to their customers.
- The ability to earn more development dollars from their customers.
- The ability to save their customers money
- A share in the residual stream from their clients.
- A support system that includes in-depth documentation, complete examples in most programming languages, and developers on staff to advise, assist or perform integrations.
Developers - we hear you. We ARE you!
Take a look at what we have to offer:
NELiX TransaX Developers Site
NELiX TransaX Partners Site
NELiX TransaX Gateway Site
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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