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Comment on Handling Authorize.Net ARB Subscription Failures by Raku

Raku — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:26:35 +0000

Hello John

I am integrate the ARB method first time. In PHP technology so please help for how to create the secure POST url And demo code for that page.

Regards
Raku

Comment on Handling Authorize.Net ARB Subscription Failures by Sheeba

Sheeba — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:13:21 +0000

Hi Friends,

I got error in Using PaymentGateway Authorize.net,How to remove these error,

Pls help me…….

Fatal error: Call to undefined function send_request_via_curl()

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Comment on Authorize.Net Releases New Customer Information Manager API by Sanaa

Sanaa — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:26:42 +0000

John, just wanted to say Thank You!
Thank You! for your work with AIM, ARB and CIM.
Authorize.net should seriously just post a link to your tutorials next to their Manuals and call it a day!

Take Care,

Sn.

Comment on Handling Authorize.Net ARB Subscription Failures by Erick M

Erick M — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:41:18 +0000

The silent post feature works just fine for me I use it for all of my ARB transactions except I’ve found one issue I’m trying to resolve. When I receive a suspended transaction I run a script to update the suspended account’s ARB start date. The script works fine and the start date gets updated but the account stays suspended. It’s only when I log into the backend and physically push the reactivate button that the account finally reactivates. Does anybody know of how to use the API to get it to reactivate? Is their field value to pass or something. I haven’t found anything yet.

Comment on Handling Authorize.Net ARB Subscription Failures by Ivica

Ivica — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:50:02 +0000

I will join to last two visitors with same question:
1. After credit Card subscription decline because expiration date(let say it is not first time subscription), what is easierst way to bill client after he change his credit card info.

2. In ARB specification, I read, that for general errors(expired CC is one of them), silent post url will not be called. I will check this in 7 days, but would like to get faster answer.

Thanks,
Ivica

Comment on How to Process Credit Cards at a Fair or Market by Sally

Sally — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:13:09 +0000

Thanks, it helps a lot!

Comment on Handling Authorize.Net ARB Subscription Failures by Olivier Travers

Olivier Travers — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:22:24 +0000

I second Matt’s question. Reading this very helpful entry and thread, it looks like the silent post URL method doesn’t work for transactions that fail because of expired credit cards. Is it true? I’ve heard from other merchants that it’s possible to debit a subscription re-using the same credit card number without an expiration number and in many cases the transaction will go through. What happens is, people got their credit card renewed with the same credit card number and a new expiration date. I’m told big online subscription services do it all the time with the issuers approval. The consumer did agree to auto renewal and didn’t ask to cancel their subscription. I’d love to do that but don’t know whether that’s possible with Authorize.net.

I just tried to edit an expired credit card number in an ARB transaction through the authorize.net website (from the Tools menu). This seemed to work, now I’ll have to see whether and when ARB will charge the card. However, even if it does work, this is a manual process, you have to call the customer, get their new cc info… this doesn’t scale well. Automating email notifications (hopefully, *before* the credit card is expired) would be much preferred. By the way the authorize.net backend doesn’t let you edit and save an ARB subscription without filling in an expiration date. Maybe the API does?

Comment on Handling Authorize.Net ARB Subscription Failures by Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:59:09 +0000

If an ARB transaction has been working fine but then fails because the credit card is expired is there a way to correct the expiration date and rerun the failed transaction.