Barclaycard EPDQ payments

Hi Nicolas,

great job you are doing here. In the latest version I see that there is hsbc payment plugin. Do you plan to make/release a barclaycard EPDQ payment plugin any time soon?

Thanks, James

And how much would the development costs be? We developed this type of payment gate for ecjcshop (JHshop) before this project died (or was mismanaged). If it were coming soon there would be no point in us porting this payment gateway. However since you say it will not be any time soon, we would like to evaluate if it worth our while doing this work in-house.

Thanks

Hi Nicolas,

it is similar to the HSBC api with it's own nuances. We will proceed with the development of gateway. Let me know how I get epdq documentation across to you so if we have any questions you can refer to relevant documentation.

Thanks

Sent.

Hi Nicolas, first issue we have encountered is that the allowed URL you configure in the CPI admin panel does not allow any dynamic query strings. We are getting a bad referrer error. On the old site we had some how set the confirmation page url to www.mysite.com/index.php . Can't remember how we did that!! Any ideas what we can do?

Yes using a jump page is one solution. Is the root web directory the best place to put this file??

As we need to put create a password protected folder for the callback script and and the return file. In the previous version we had put these documents into the front end /components/com_shop folder. Do you have any suggestions where to put this? We were thinking in the /media/com_hikashop/ folder.

Thanks

The call back script from the payment gateway must be a in a password protected folder. In the configuration on the barclay card epdq server you must set up the passphrase for the call back script.

We will put everything in the hikashoppayment folder to alleviate the installation issues.

So far we are able to call the epdq server with the customer details and total to pay, and we now working on the call back script.

We are just looking at the best way to post the info to the barclays epdq server. Currently we have all the information we need to send in the $vars variable in the epdq_end.php file. However sending the information from the edpq_end.php gives errors because the epdq server only allows the URLto post the information free of dynamic variables. So the url:
www.mysite.co.uk/index.php?option=com_hi...step&step=1&Itemid=1 throws bad referrer errors.

However if in the epdq_end.php we pass the information to the file:

www.mysite.co.uk/plugins/hikashoppayment/epdq_post.php

And then in this file we post the information to the epdq server everything is okay. However this file in no longer within the joomla framework, so besides being open for anyone to access, none of the joomla functions or variable are usable. Any ideas?

Quirky to say the least. Any way forwards we go. As you can see from the attached screen we can connect and transfer all data to EPDQ server. The user fills in their card details and proceeds with the transaction. While the transaction is taking place, in real time, the epdq server communicates with the ecommerce site through the call back script. The call back script updates the status of the order. It is done this way in so that if the customer does not click back to the site the correct status has been assiged to the order depending on the outcome of the transaction. In the call back script what is the best way to update the status of the order? Thanks

It is driving me crazy. Anyway we have the callback in real time working. I am just looking at the best way to get the user back to the site. You must use specify a return url. For other payment plugins what is url do you use?

sorry for bringing back an old topic but just wanted to check whether you got epdq to work James? If so, could you please take a look at your PM...

Hi, I could really do with this payment plugin. Was it finished, is it available anywhere for share or sale, will Hika be adding a barclays epdq plugin soon.

Many thanks