adding credit card payment to site

[fguihen]

how do i begin adding credit card payment to a website? can someone pont me to a decent tutorial?

 

are there issues with storing credit card numbers, or do i have to strore them at all?

 

will the implementation be different depending on where the web site will be hosted?

 

what other security issues are there to consider?

 

thanks all

[mskeel]

If you can use paypal, you might want to consider using the paypal SDK.

[fguihen]

i was thinking of paypal, but im not sure if many of the people who would be buying from this site would have paypal accounts or want the hassle of signing up. so a simple ( or not so simple as the case may be) credit card payment system may suit this particular scenario a better.

[mike55]

You could always set-up a merchant account with your local bank, and then get a credit card processing gateway like verisign to handle the accepting of the credit card details. For every transaction, verisign will take a commission. Alternatively you could collect the credit card details, and then pass them to the processing gateway for processing.

 

Mike55.