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Re: First Data



PayWare Transact from Verifone. Actually made the transition from TSYS to FD better. Still able to use the same interface from the application. The back end was a little more difficult, but it's supporting many many transactions and many merchant numbers. 

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On Jun 24, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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