I have a group of local (Alberta, Canada) users who are looking for integrating their Wordpress web site with the payment portal API.
These companies will be offering services, passing the user to a credit card processing portal and then getting the user back to continue any processing or work that needs to be done.
The API documentation advises the following skill set :
1. Server side processing language like PHP, Ruby, Python or ASP.net
2. API credentials as provided by Payment Portal
3. Ability to post data from server to server (using cURL or a similar technology)
4. Ability to parse JSON responses (refunding and reporting API)
5. TLS version 1.1 or 1.2 at least (SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLS v1.0 are no longer PCI compliant)
There are three API elements (Payment, refund and report)
As an example the Payments API identifies this process flow:
1. Form is submitted by a web user to a local server side script
2. Local server side script posts Required and Optional fields to Payment Portal and waits for response
3. Payment Portal responds in plain text with a fully formed URL for this unique payment form
4. Local server side script redirects to the URL provided in #3, which will appear as the Payment Portal
Public Payment Form
5. Web user fills out Payment Portal payment form, agrees to the terms and submits their payment
details
6. Paymetn Portal obtains authorization to charge the funds to the web user’s credit card. If you have
posted post_response_url as an Optional field, Payment Portal will POST transaction responses
including approval, amounts and any Custom reference fields (transaction_id, ref_1, ref_2 etc)
that you’ve included.
7. Web user reviews the resulting screen, and if it’s a successful transaction, they can optionally
click to return to your site (if you’ve provided a return_url)
My Project Requirements
1. All web sites will be Wordpress
2. Local site specific information ( account_id, api_secret etc.) are to be stored Encrypted in a MySQL table in the same database as the wordpress tables.
3. All user data collected (some of which will be used in the API and some not) must also be stored encrypted in MySQL.
4. For the first phase of this project ONLY the payment API will be implemented as reporting and refunds can already be processed from an online customer adminstrator portal.
5. Need code (I prefer PHP but not required) to accept data from user forms, store that data encrypted in MySql, implement the Payment API, manage return codes (accepted and rejected).
6. I will also need a method to recover user data from the MySQL database as this information will be important for future marketing efforts (name, email etc.). A CSV export would work well for this.
I will release the API to candidates that are short listed for a fixed price quote. I am working on the details of the data fields required that I will also make available for the full quote.
Time frame for completion should be in the order of June 2020.
