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It's been a long time since I've worked in eCommerce but at my last ecom role we used two payment processors and simply stored the card data with both for every
by pc86 4y ago
It's been a long time since I've worked in eCommerce but at my last ecom role we used two payment processors and simply stored the card data with both for every customer, and the relevant IDs in the customer record in the database. Whenever anything got charged we'd check which processor we were supposed to use and off we went.
Yes this has an increased cost if your processor charges by number of customers, but I don't think that's particularly common - these two were just revenue + monthly fee.
- exhilaration 4y agoGreat solution, I wouldn't have thought of this. Did you ever get complaints about the charge description looking different month to month, or did both processors pass the same description to the customer's credit card?
- pc86 4y agoI don't remember for sure (this was pushing 10 years ago and early in my career), but I don't recall any complaints of that type.