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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘Payments’, page 1:

Indirect and Client-Centric Payment Processing. Logging and Reconciliation

Quote: “Fortunately, there is a neat crypto-trick which makes this schema usable for Server-oriented games in general – and multi-player games in particular”
Another Quote: “if you’re using TCP to communicate, you should log everything right before it goes into your send() call (and right after it comes out of your recv() call”
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Direct Payment Processing. Recovery from ‘Unknown’ Transaction Status. PCI DSS.

Quote: “With the Direct Processing, customer should trust us (the merchant) with their details”
Another Quote: “On the other hand, most of PCI DSS requirements make perfect sense regardless of formal compliance”
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Payment Processing. Credit Cards. Chargebacks and Collateral Damage

Quote: “Chargeback monster will come from under the bed and will eat all your hard-earned money!”
Another Quote: “it is trivial to develop a system with guaranteed zero chargeback rate – to achieve this, it is sufficient to decline each and every transaction at pre-filter stage”
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