RE: Does Minivend NEED Cybercash?

[Bill Thornton <bill@i-forge.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from Bill Thornton <bill@i-forge.com>     ******

Your connection to Cybercash _should_ allow you to choose whether you will
charge immediately (for "soft" goods like software or mp3's) that will be
transferred to the buyer immediately.  Other goods, so-called "hard" goods,
cannot be charged until they are shipped.

Your cybercash account should have a "cash register" that will allow you to
tell it when to actually transfer the money.  With "hard" goods
transactions, the inital processing just freezes the amount of the
transaction so that the buyer cannot spend money he's promised to a company.
Then, once an item is shipped the vendor is supposed to go in and process
the transaction the rest of the way and have the money transferred into
their merchant account.

--Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff [mailto:brage@phear.cyberhighway.net]
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 1999 1:43 AM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Re: Does Minivend NEED Cybercash?
> 
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from "Jeff" 
> <brage@phear.cyberhighway.net>     ******
> 
> So write an inventory tracking system :)
> 
> > 
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy 
> <treahy@mmaz.com>     ******
> > 
> > Sorry Jenny, I don't know what you mean about use other 
> accounts, but yes unless I'm
> > missing something about MV, the system assumes that an 
> order accepted, booked, is also
> > immediately shipped; right?  Though we ship most product 
> immediately, as a
> > manufacturer we sometimes have out of stock situations and 
> it wouldn't be right to
> > charge a customers card and then deliver product 6-8 weeks later.
> > 
> > What I was trying to say is that if MV booked the order, 
> like an order entry system,
> > and then had a second phase that would allow booked orders 
> to be shipped when product
> > was available at which time the card would be charged, 
> product shipped, and shipping
> > notices e-mailed, faxed or mailed.
> > 
> > I don't see this as a major problem for us because its our 
> desire to integrate the
> > on-line systems with our internal systems anyway where the 
> credit card charging is
> > liked to the shipping process...
> > 
> > Barry
> > 
> > Jenny Ng wrote:
> > 
> > > ******    message to minivend-users from Jenny Ng 
> <jennyng@bigfoot.com>     ******
> > >
> > > I'm sorry, Barry, but I don't quite get what you mean.  
> Do you mean that
> > > because there isn't a mechanism in MV to make an order 
> pending and then
> > > post at actual time of shipment, we need run CC's 
> MANUALLY when the product
> > > leaves the doc?  So we cannot use other accounts?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jenny
> > >
> > > At 04:40 PM 4/7/99 -0700, Barry Treahy wrote:
> > > >******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy 
> <treahy@mmaz.com>
> > > >******
> > > >
> > > >We do not use any automated system because not every 
> order we take is
> > > >immediately
> > > >shippable and there isn't a mechanism in MV to make an 
> order pending and
> > > >then post at
> > > >actual time of shipment.  We run CC's through our normal 
> system when the
> > > >product
> > > >leaves the doc.
> > > >
> > > >Barry
> > > >
> > > >Jenny Ng wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> ******    message to minivend-users from Jenny Ng 
> <jennyng@bigfoot.com>
> > > > ******
> > > >>
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> Do I NEED to use Cybercash for Minivend?  Or can I use 
> other merchant
> > > >> account methods?  If so, what are they?
> > > >>
> > > >> Thank you very much!
> > > >>
> > > >> - Jenny
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