RE: FN-FORUM: HSBC Payment integration

date posted 8th January 2007 15:13

> Have you or the client received the CD from HSBC? This includes a number
> of examples plus technical guides for the various ways to send payments
> to HSBC.

Not yet. They sent one CD but it was just a demo for the services they
offer rather than technical. I believe the client has asked for a
technical reference so I guess it's on its way.

> If you are interfacing with HSBC using the XML interface then I can give
> some advice as I've used this approach with the ASP.NET web site
> www.lavenderandsage.co.uk. This does mean you have to take the payment
> details on your own web site via SSL and then send to HSBC.

I wasn't sure whether they let you capture/pass payment details to them or
not, (as opposed to them taking the details and then redirecting to a
success/failure page on our website) so I made the assumption we had to
capture the details and I've just built a simple payment details form for
the time being. I can't really do much else until I know what they expect
to receive. This particular website is classic ASP rather than .NET.

If it was straightforward I would have written the code to make it work
while I was waiting but perhaps I should see what they offer before making a
decision.