Posted by amariotti on March 17, 2011 at 4:32am
I'd like to start a discussion here regarding some functionality that I am looking for in a Drupal/Ubercart Registration system. The Ubercart registration is not absolutely required, but may allow for easier management of the backend.
I'd like to be able to create events that people can register for, but before the registration is finalized the event must reach a certain threshold of registrants. With that I'd like for the credit cards to be held and batch processed once the threshold is met, and any registrations from then on are run immediately upon checkout.
Does this functionality exist somewhere? Anyone module developers willing to partner up to make this happen?
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Be careful about PCI compliance
One concern I would have with storing credit card numbers and then batch processing them is ensuring you are complying with the PCI DSS standards, https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/
There can be very large penalties if your security is breached and compliance is relatively complex.
Most of the conservative companies I know end up using a payment gateway (like PayPal) that keeps credit card information outside of their system.
Something to keep in mind...
Yes, PayPal is definitely the
Yes, PayPal is definitely the route we would take. Just looked up the authorize and capture information on PayPal's website and it looks like that's exactly what they have setup to use. The one thing that I need to figure out is if there's some way through the API to initiate the cards being processed once a certain thing happens on the site. Thanks for point this out.
Andrew (amariotti)