I have spent the past year developing software for merchants who sell using payment gateway “buy buttons” and shopping carts.
This is how the software works:
When a customer provides credit card details and completes a purchase from a merchant’s web site, the gateway sends an Email to the customer and another to the merchant that describes the order.
The sellEbit software parses these Emails, extracts the contents, and puts the details into a database on the merchant’s computer.
An acknowledgement and receipt are mailed to the customer and the sale is placed in a list which is used to track the order as it is filled.
The Email details stored in the database can be used to:
* Display reports of income and transactions (sales, donations and purchases)
* Display histograms of transactions, products and stock levels
* Display directed graphs of relations between transactions, items, products and customers.
* Send bulk mail to customers.
I have used the demonstration facility to generate some examples of the Emails that are sent to customers, but need some examples of the Emails that are sent to merchants so I can integrate the software.
Would someome please forward some sample Emails to support@sellebit.com. If you are worried about confidentiality, you might want to change some of your customer details first.
For further details please go to www.sellebit.com. You can download the application from there and try it out.
Thanks,
Lloyd Simons
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Unfortunately, email is not 100% reliable, mainly due to spam filtering on multiple tiers that occasionally catch emails that are actually valid before the email even hits a person’s in-box. Vendors can make use of the Instant Notification Service, which allows them to set scripts up to receive messages about any changes to sales. Each possible email notification is represented by each available INS message, so there is the potential of having a system rely solely on INS messages and become independent of needing email notifications.