Hi, I would like to develop a paying system like Groupon.com does. For those who don't know about groupon, you can purchase coupon only if the coupon as been sold "n" number of times. But when you pay you are charged only if the limit number of people has been reached. This means then save somehow your credit card number somewhere and charged you when the sell is done.
My question is how, where do they do their paying thing?
Greg
I would imagine most if not all payment gateways (e.g. Authorize.net) allow a "Authorization Only" submittal; the card is only actually charged with a subsequent "Prior Authorization Capture" using a transaction id or some other token, which means there's no need to retain the actual card data on the site (a very good thing!).
HTH,
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