geniuscart

Configuring GeniusCart to work with Elavon's Virtual Merchant payment gateway requires three pieces of information:

1. A "UID" which is typically customer selected and may be letters or numbers
2. The "ID" which is a numeric identifier
3. A "PIN" which is usually also numeric

Once these three pieces of information are assembled, build the GeniusCart "Data String" from them. Here is some example information first listed and then shown as it would be used in the "Data string" entered for the payment method:

Example Information

ID: 123456
UID: mysite1
PIN: 654321

Assembled as Data String

ID=123456 UID=mysite1 PIN=654321

If the merchant wanted to only authorize but not capture all transactions, the string may be altered to look like this:

ID=123456 UID=mysite1 PIN=654321 AUTHONLY

More general information is in the GeniusCart manual, which you can download at the GeniusCart site.

GeniusCart

Too many businesses get locked in to out of date, unmaintained, and let's face it- dead software. To keep our clients from falling into this ghastly fate we created a living program that is open to all who wish to feed and grow it.

GeniusCart™ is the name of our "Freedom Software" ecommerce product.

It is a fully customizable shopping cart system written using PHP and it is designed in such a way that all of the core building blocks of it can be brought into sub-applications to extend functionality with surprising ease.

This program's development is currently funded by sponsors. Sponsors are businesses who want to add functionality or improve existing functionality, and they are willing to pay for it. Everybody benefits because these improvements are eventually rolled out to all customers.

We even welcome contributions from other developers provided that they meet our coding standards. If you are interested in contributing, please contact us before you begin coding so we can ensure a compatible result.

GeniusCart is fun to work with, open to everybody so it will never suffer that deadly abandonware complex, and a great resource for any developer wanting to construct web stores.

But more important to the business person, it is a very thoughtfully implemented work of easy to use search engine optimized web marketing software.

Get more information at the official site for the shopping cart and request an install to try it for yourself and support the project.