Payments via SMS

[belvedere +]

I'd like to introduce payment via SMS for certain classified adverts. I have found a provider that gives me the html code to be able to do this. However I don't know how to put it in under payment providers or on the checkout page.

Has anybody done this before or know how I can achieve it.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Mike

[seymourjames +]

Putting it on payment providers is easy. Just open the module and put the logo in for that payment provider. The rest is difficult because you will need a completely new payment gateway developed.

[ombre +]

What you need is a script that do 2 things.

One is checking the mail where the SMS will come to you and second is to update the status for the ads in the database.

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Originally Posted by ombre

What you need is a script that do 2 things.

One is checking the mail where the SMS will come to you and second is to update the status for the ads in the database.

No, that is not correct. The SMS mail doesn't come to you. It needs to be a payment gateway just like all of the other gateways. The SMS merchant service is who the SMS mail goes to. Just like making any other type of payment. It goes to whatever service is offering it.

It would need to follow the rules and parameters as defined by 68 Classifieds for a Payment Gateway. The merchant services provider then should have an API or other parameters that you need for the gateway to send their required information. They then go through their process (in this case provide a place to send the SMS) to collect the payment. Then they need to send results of the process back to your site as well as the customer. Then the payment gateway following 68 parameters processes the order based on the status as sent back by the merchant services provider.

[ombre +]

Originally Posted by Mike-N-Tosh

No, that is not correct. The SMS mail doesn't come to you. It needs to be a payment gateway just like all of the other gateways. The SMS merchant service is who the SMS mail goes to. Just like making any other type of payment. It goes to whatever service is offering it.

It would need to follow the rules and parameters as defined by 68 Classifieds for a Payment Gateway. The merchant services provider then should have an API or other parameters that you need for the gateway to send their required information. They then go through their process (in this case provide a place to send the SMS) to collect the payment. Then they need to send results of the process back to your site as well as the customer. Then the payment gateway following 68 parameters processes the order based on the status as sent back by the merchant services provider.

You are right, but its to complicated Mike.

We got the sms with the listings id as text of the sms via mail in our mailbox. Our script is scanning the mailbox every 5 minutes and if there is a mail from a specific mail address and with the listing id for a not featured listing, the add will be featured and the mail removed from mailbox. Thats all . It's a legacy solution, ok. But easy and works for us.