User Guide

Chapter 10216

CyberCash Features Supported

CyberCash provides a full array of credit card services that includes authorization,

capture, voids, returns, etc. Currently, the Drumbeat CyberCash SmartElement

provides the capability to 'authorize' and 'capture' credit card charges. In the

terminology of credit card processing, 'authorization' means verifying that the

credit card has sufﬁcient credit to cover the requested purchase. 'Capture' means

submitting a charge to the credit card and depositing funds in your bank account.

Payment scripts encapsulated in the CyberCash SmartElement enable both

'Authorization Only' and 'Authorization and Capture' processing modes. The

processing mode executed by these scripts is a conﬁguration parameter set by

CyberCash when you 'go live.'

Note that the ability to do Authorization and Capture depends on the ﬁnancial

institution and the details of your account. Voids, returns, etc are currently not

supported. You can arrange to obtain these services through CyberCash directly.

For a good introduction to on-line credit card processing, visit

www.cybercash.com/cybercash/services/credit_101.html.

Design-Time Attributes

There are only three design-time attributes for the CyberCash SmartElement:

Name is the name of the element.

CyberCash Configuration File is the path to the Conﬁguration File required for the

CyberCash payment processing. When you install the MCK, you will specify an

install directory. The install process will create a 'test-mck' subdirectory, which has

a 'mck-cgi\conf' subdirectory containing the merchant_conf ﬁle. Enter the path

to this ﬁle for CyberCash Conﬁguration File attribute. For instance:

C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\test-mck\\mck-cgi\\conf\\merchant_conf.

Note two peculiar requirements for this attribute:

 CyberCash requires "\\" as the path delimiter rather than the standard "\"

 Including the ﬁle extension (i.e. ".txt") causes an error.

CyberCashID is the CyberCash ID. When you register as a merchant with

CyberCash, they will provide you with a CyberCashID needed when sending

payment requests to their cash register. For testing purposes, you may use the 'test-

mck' ID provided as a default.