[ic] Authorize.Net Missing Order Number

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Russ Mann)]

> I think it may have to do with the order process. An order number is not
> created until the transaction is completed, at which time IC says "make it
> so" and assigns the order number. To pass it to the authnet gateway, one
> thinks that IC would have to assign the receipt number "before" the
> transaction is verified and successful....
>
> May mean just another sub to create, but what does it do, "hold" an order
> number waiting for a successful transaction, what if there is
> never success?
> Junk the number? Then you have missing numbers in your order query. Assign
> the number back to the order_number file, what if second shopper came and
> went already? Then you have a quandary...
>
> "if" this is the scenario, it could be fixed with some a coding....
>
> RS


Ok, that's understandable.  Alternative way to do this: Make a unique number
for each "attempted" order and log it in the database.  It will not be the
actual order number, but it is a field we could print out on the email
report and in the UI admin to correlate the CC charge with the actual order.

IC Gurus, does this sound like a reasonable solution?

-Russell