By Mark Nawrocki on
8/25/2008 3:17 PM
Allowing provisioned data to be provided by the service provider or sales channel and included in service contracts benefits application end users by freeing them from having to enter data that they may not understand during application configuration.
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By Chip Kahn on
8/4/2008 10:27 AM
Hi! I’m Chip Kahn and I am the CEO of IP Commerce. We founded IP Commerce a few years ago with the goal of helping software developers who require simple payment integration. We decided to do this after experiencing the pain firsthand ourselves, when in a “former life” we had to do some payment integrations. The complexity, cost and PCI burden was shocking. We found that, in order to provide our customers with the flexibility of accepting multiple payment tenders securely, the pain increased exponentially.
We have co ...
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By Dave Herrald on
4/30/2008 3:57 PM
There’s been a lot of news in payments industry compliance over the past few weeks. I thought I’d do a quick summary post.
First, the PCI SSC announced the availability of the PCI Payment Applications Data Security Standard (PA-DSS). The council has also released a comprehensive FAQ regarding the new standard. You should talk with your QPASC or PA QSA (these are security firms who are certified to per ...
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By Cuyler Jones on
3/28/2008
In which we discuss the age old concept of the "creation myth" as it pertains to software design concepts.
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By Dave Herrald on
3/26/2008 2:45 PM
If you are planning to develop a payment application that handles payment card transactions, it’s never too early to start thinking about Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) compliance. If you read my last post you know that any new payment application released after July 1, 2008 is required to be validated as PABP compliant before it can be certified to process Visa transactions.
PABP is a big specification with many technical requirements. To assist software companies like yours in meeting some of the most demanding of them, IP Commerce offers the Commerce Toolkit for Applications (Toolkit). The Toolkit offers much more than just an easier path to meeting PABP requi ...
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By Darren Adelgren on
3/10/2008 11:31 AM
In my previous entry, I talked about Actions, and the Builders that build them. Today I want to talk about another new feature made available in the 1.17 toolkit known as the Settlement Wrapper.
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By Darren Adelgren on
3/10/2008 11:29 AM
Or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love Builders. A quick overview of the new Action objects and how they work in Commerce Toolkit for Applications v1.17.
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By Dave Herrald on
3/6/2008 3:33 PM
If you are a software company in the business of developing applications that processes credit card transactions, you’ve probably heard about recently mandated Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) compliance validation requirements from Visa. Whether you’ve brought payment applications to market successfully in the past or you are looking to payment-enable your first application, the details of the rapidly changing payment application security and compliance landscape can be a little overwhelming. Many software companies like yours are wondering what PABP is, what the compliance validation mandates are, how to turn the compliance mandates into a differentiator for your application, and what your next steps are.
The PABP specification itself is a set of requirements that payment applications should me ...
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By thannan on
1/22/2008 12:32 PM
"Using Commerce Toolkit for Applications, we integrated bank card processing services with our point-of-sale application in less than three weeks and with no prior payment integration experience," said Martin Jaramillo, president of Buildernet Software. “The Toolkit also made bank card security requirements easier to navigate.”
IP Commerce is pleased to announce the release of version 1.17 of the Commerce Toolkit for Applications(CTA). From a developer's perspective, this represents a fairly major step forward in simplifying the process of developing secure commerce software. This toolkit is unique in that it is applicable for the developer building either Point-of-Sale software or Accounting specific applications.
If you aren't familiar with the Toolkit, it is designed to allow developers to leverage a single solution to payment, or commerce, enable their applications. R ...
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By Mark Nawrocki on
1/18/2008 10:54 AM
Commerce Lab is the source for commerce application developers. Find complete developer resources including; sample code, quick start tools – everything you need to commerce-enable your .NET applications.
We’ll be using the developer blogs to post Commerce Lab updates, highlight unique applications and payment services, and so on. If you’d like to send us feedback or suggest a topic for a blog post, feel free to email us.
In the meantime, be sure to register for Commerce Lab, check out the documentation, and download a free copy of the Commerce Toolkit for Applications to get started coding.
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