Before the forum is flooded with questions and requests for payment processors I thought I should post some information regarding the proccess of supporting a vast number of payment gateways.


Not all payment gateway companies are easy to work with, often times it's impossible to get developer documentation and test accounts. What this means is that sometimes we code to a specific API but have no true way of testing the gateway. There are also times when gateways in "Test" mode don't perform the same as "Live" mode - thus even with a test account we can't always predict live behavior. These 3rd party companies also seem to be filled with tech support that have no concept of programming for the API and like to blame "us" for their problems.



As we attempt to include almost every popular payment gateway at no charge to BV Commerce customers we will no doubt run into scenarios that were not possible to test because we don't have a live account or the payment gateway is less than stellar in their ability to provide proper documentation and support. We have attempted to make this a bit easier by using a component but I'm finding that even this documentation is filled with mistakes and poor information.



While many of you may have had to purchase a plug-in in the past for BVC2004 this is no longer the case in BVC 5. Please understand that while we attempt to write our payment code to the specifications provided there are bound to be problems because of the reason I've outlined above. Those customers who have live accounts and are willing to help us test their respective payment gateway would be a tremendous asset. While I don't expect customers to beta test software this is one area where it's impossible for us to obtain true live accounts for all payment gateways and can use the help testing.