Payment Processing in Flash/Flex

Payment Processing in Flash? Unheard of!

Of course, everybody knows that if you have to process a payment, whether Credit Card or ACH, and you have a flash website, movie, game, etc, you have to kick the user out to (yuck) HTML. Then you process the payment, and then you can bring them back into your flash environment.

If you are a Flash developer, or have ever met one, you know this to be a problem. Flash developers, and designers in general, want to be able to control every facet of the user experience as much as possible. By pulling the user out of the Flash environment to handle payment processing, developers lose that control.

Right? Well, at least that's the way it used to be.

NELiX TransaX has recently released an update to the NELiX TransaX FleXport toolkit, which now includes a Flex/Flash demo. Developers only need to copy and paste our code, then adjust as desired and voila - payment processing directly from within Flash.

Imagine a flash game, where players can make purchases from within game as they go! Imagine a flash movie where users can purchase more movie time as it's playing. Imagine credit card fields flying into the form, then exploding once the payment is processed. Your imagination is the limit!

Our goal is to empower developers of all types to help them bring better solutions to their customers, and the new Flex/Flash component of NELiX TransaX FleXport is a great example!

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Batch Payment Processing in QuickBooks

A couple months ago, we released a QuickBooks component that allows people to process credit card payments through QuickBooks.

This module brought a number of benefits to the table for QuickBooks users.

1. It gives QuickBooks users a second option for payment processing.
2. It brought ACH (e-check) processing into the picture.
3. Using the NELiX TransaX Customer Vault, merchants can store billing information in the NELiX TransaX Payment Gateway, and never maintain that data, helping them maintain PCI compliance, reduce risk, and increase security.
4. It can be customized to meet the needs of the specific merchant.

There was one problem however. You had to run the transactions one at a time. For some merchants, that works fine. An customer calls in asking to pay by credit card, that credit card payment is entered through QuickBooks, the customer is charged, payments recorded, etc.

However, many merchants have many transactions that need to be run - sometimes hundreds or thousands at a time. It's just not viable to run these one at a time.

It would be great if a merchant can select the customers to run transactions for (or select all of them), click a button, and all of the transactions are run automatically.

Even better would be if this process can be run unattended. Setup a scheduled task to run credit card and ACH payments for all customers with outstanding balances at midnight each night, for example.

Well, our newly released version 2.0 of the NELiX TransaX QuickBooks module does just that! Using the module, merchants can pull up a list of customers who:

1. have outstanding balances
2. have billing information on file within the NELiX TransaX Payment Gateway.

Merchants can then check off, or uncheck customers to bill, click a button, and each transaction is processed! Even better, the unattended mode allows merchants to schedule the transaction process to run once a week, once a day, once an hour, or whatever they see fit! Code can be written to launch the batch process from within other applications at the Merchants site.

At the end of the process, payment records are created for the successes, and a CSV file is produced with full details of every transaction. Merchants can bring this data into their back office system and handle the success and declines in any way they see fit.

Best of all, because we are a full development house, a merchant account provider, and a gateway provider, we can customize the process to meet the exact needs of the Merchant.

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