One common complaint about the Authorize.Net Automated Recurring Billing (ARB) system is that there is no way to handle subscriptions that are declined when processing a future scheduled payment. As it turns out there is a way to handle this failures programmatically and automate your response to them.
Authorize.Net has a little known, and poorly documented [...]
Handling Authorize.Net ARB Subscription Failures
Posted on 29 November 2009 by admin
Where is the CVV # on Credit Cards?
Posted on 29 November 2009 by admin
I have had a few merchants recently not understand what the CVV # is on credit cards and how they can use it to protect themselves from potential fraud and/or chargebacks. In the image (the left) shows you where to find the CVV number on credit cards.
It is a three or four digit security code [...]
Making sense of the PCI mess
Posted on 29 November 2009 by admin
The merchant account industry is in turmoil right now relating to the PCI-DSS fees that just about everyone is currently experiencing. I would like to make an analysis of why we are all seeing these fees and how this whole situation came about.
Just to dispel any hopes that these might be going away soon, they’re [...]
Source: Making sense of the PCI mess