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Re: First Data
Which product Michael? When we were looking we could barely find working example for any language on any system and certainly no vendors in the IBM i spec who supported FD.
On 2013-06-24, at 3:37 PM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Once you have FD working (and I'm using an i-based product, though the
> settlement is custom), it seems to work well...as reliable as TSYS
> anyway.
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Jon Paris
> <[1]jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There are any number of vendors I would prefer to use to First Data.
> Admittedly once we had beaten the API into submission we have had no
> problems.
> But if like us you are a small company it is not as simple as "Just
> switch to using X".
> We talked to JetPay (among others) and were told it was going to
> take 6 - 8+ weeks to be approved even though we had existing
> merchant agreements in place. They also required that we provide a
> bunch of financials that we did not have readily to hand. That meant
> paying the accountant to complete the forms, etc. etc. In the end we
> stuck with First Data.
>
> On 2013-06-24, at 12:59 PM, HarryWilliams <[2]harry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> First Data has lost huge amounts of money the last several years.
> Who knows how long they will be in business.
>> Try Jetpayi5.com They do a fantastic job, and the rates are more
> than reasonable.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/23/2013 10:48 PM, Mike Wills wrote:
>>> Run, don't walk from First Data. While the API was simple to use,
> the
>>> setup involved in getting it working was a huge PITA... and it
> didn't
>>> always work if you tried to setup two computers the same way. My
>>> experience is with C# and Windows servers. I had to install a
> certain
>>> OpenSSL DLL, then I had to download, not reference online the WSDL
> for
>>> the web API.
>>>
>>> That said, good luck getting it going. Based on some of the other
>>> feedback, looks like writing a Java interface might be a better
>>> approach.
>>>
>>> We have since moved to VirtualMerchant. Very easy to understand API
>>> and is works how one would think an API like that should work. No
>>> setup, just POST calls to a web API over SSL.
>>> --
>>> Mike Wills
>
>>> [3]http://mikewills.me
>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Carlos Lugo<[4]jclugod@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>>> Anybody who have done and integrate First Data via HTTPAPI and
> if
>>>> possible to get the sample code program.
>>>> Would like to see the Pass Parameters
>>>>
>>>> Thank You
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Carlos Lugo
>>>>
>
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