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PayTrace: 400 Bad Request For Declined Payment

TLDR:  post IS successful.  PayTrace, by design, returns a 400 error, which sets off exceptions in httpresponse.  Solution: catch the exception and then continue deserializing your response. I coded a few weeks ago a .NET post to the PayTrace API which helps me demo and test payment by credit card using client side encryption.  The…
                       

Azure Blob’s Ghost Folders?

This week I had to address a upload image to blob application that I had built in my development environment, was working fine, but needed to be configured to work in production.  For the application overall, I used Azure Samples for Upload Image to Storage (built in .NET Core).  In it, the configuration in appsettings.json…
                                   

Step By Step: Accepting Checks via Telecheck, Payeezy & Direct API (.NET)

This is a very basic tutorial on dealing with Payeezy, who’s documentation I found sometimes difficult.  Some of this guidance, I only found in forum threads and so I document… Get What You Need Merchant Demo account Developer Sandbox account Merchant Token (demo) API secret (sandbox) API key (sandbox
                          

.NET Core with PayTrace (Mime Type Fix)

This year I am re-writing my previous payment solution (from PHP to .NET) and first on the project list is credit cards.  We are using PayTrace and their client-side encryption as to not have to worry about PCI Compliance. I’m to the point where I have a Pre-Payment model with all the fields needed to…
                                         

Securing AS400 / iSeries (Comodo Free SSL)

Enabling SSL certificates with Comodo’s Free 90 Day trial SSL Certificate.  This process enables you to secure both web services, login, and SSL across all other servers/services on the AS400 / iSeries. Note:  If you are replacing/renewing your cert and something goes wrong, do not be afraid to delete your certificate store (if this is…
                                         

Little Fox Chinese

Hanzi, Pinyin, English translations, slow pronunciation, graded levels, this series has it all!  They even put the subtitles in plain text for you to copy, translate, etc if you are unsure.  I’m currently following Bat and Friends (小蝙蝠和朋友们).  Big congratulations to Little Fox on these nicely done videos!

PHP/Curl SSL Certificate Error with Payeezy

As I work toward syncing our as400 to our payment gateway, I’ve encountered an error both in PayTrace and Payeezy sample codes, generally when making a JSON post with Curl in PHP. The error: ssl certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain Almost ALL documentation / research on this suggests you turn off Curl…
                          

PayTrace Client Side Encryption (PHP / IIS)

This is a quick for-developers-only guide of how to get your PHP/JS code (Windows) talking to PayTrace’s API.  I chose the Client Side Encryption as being our first time out, I wanted the least amount of strictness in PCI compliance.   This guide assumes you know PHP, JS, JQuery, a little of what an API does,…
                       
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