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Understand the steps involved in online credit card processing

This discussion, unfortunately, misses the interaction between the 'middle men' like PayPal and 2Checkout -- and how their participation changes the scenario. Any chance of getting further information on how THAT aspect changes things? Cheers, Marty... http://www.five-star-hotels.com

Is this the typical lingo for transactions? I have looked elsewhere to verify preauth, postauth and sale terminology. I can't find any. Could you direct me to your source for these terms?

BTW - I agree that credit card processing is all about transactions. However, we use the terms: authorization, capture, settlment, return, reversal and chargeback.

thanks,
marc

Your "advertisement" overlayed your technical diagram, making it impossible to read your article.

Yeah, it is quite annoying. I use opera, so I just dragged the image to make it the sole item in the window, then went back to the article.

The culprit seems to be IBM -- refresh popped in different ads

is blocking the article image. Grr.

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