Payment Gateway API Suggestions?

[ChaseDyson]

I need to accept credit cards on my website and have them processed through a payment gateway.

I've looked at authorize.net and that seems to be the best option.

My main question is then what do I use to automate the processing? I need something that will tell authorize.net to charge the card, then send an email to the customer explaining the charge, and then also at the end of the day generate an excel document that I can email to my supplier.

Is that possible and do you have any suggestions on this type of setup?

Thank you in advance for your help!

 

[bluechinagroup]

Personally I think NMI is way better than authorize.net

Your CRM should support most popular gateways already. If you are developing your CRM from scratch, then you should grab the API documentation from whatever gateway you decide to use.

Furthermore, a gateway is useless without a merchant account. Be sure to obtain a merchant account. You should have at least one, but it's better to have more than one merchant account.

 

[mologic]

Authorize.net is probably the easiest. I've coded a payment gateway for auth.net and it was very easy. Also, most e-commerce solutions have a plugin for authorize.net. It's the most widely used payment gateway for sure so you can't really go wrong with it.