TravelNet
12-10-2004, 08:41 AM
Hi guys,
I've been drag netting google over the last week trying to establish how I can set up cc processing for my Cambodian based travel site. It has been a week of ups and downs to say the least, obviously I have some major factors working against me.
1) I'm not a U.S national (I'm British, for what it's worth)
2) The business is based in Cambodia (Not the creditors favourite location on earth)
3) I am selling travel services such as hotel bookings and local flights. (That's 2checkout, checked out of the window)
So after doing the rounds it looks like my options are limited, there is paypal (thanks but no thanks) and ikobo, whos product looks solid enough, with one slight drawback, there are no ATM's in Cambodia, so the only way to get my cash is to take my Ikobo card to a local bank and get stung for at least 3% on every withdrawl.
Question 1 - Is there anyway of transfering Ikobo funds to my U.K account or better still Cambodian account to save me that un-welcome extra 3% from the local cowboy banks?
Question 2 - Can the Ikobo shopping cart be modified so that it states 'nights' instead of 'quantity' to be more fitting with a hotel room booking system? If not are there any 3rd party shopping carts that work with ikobo and can be modified to work with a hotel booking assuming the availability has already been confirmed at my end before the customer has been transfered to Ikobo? If this is also not possible, where can I find the details so that our php guy can write a script that fits with what we need and can work with the Ikobo authentication?
Sorry for the long post, thanks in advance!
Chris
I've been drag netting google over the last week trying to establish how I can set up cc processing for my Cambodian based travel site. It has been a week of ups and downs to say the least, obviously I have some major factors working against me.
1) I'm not a U.S national (I'm British, for what it's worth)
2) The business is based in Cambodia (Not the creditors favourite location on earth)
3) I am selling travel services such as hotel bookings and local flights. (That's 2checkout, checked out of the window)
So after doing the rounds it looks like my options are limited, there is paypal (thanks but no thanks) and ikobo, whos product looks solid enough, with one slight drawback, there are no ATM's in Cambodia, so the only way to get my cash is to take my Ikobo card to a local bank and get stung for at least 3% on every withdrawl.
Question 1 - Is there anyway of transfering Ikobo funds to my U.K account or better still Cambodian account to save me that un-welcome extra 3% from the local cowboy banks?
Question 2 - Can the Ikobo shopping cart be modified so that it states 'nights' instead of 'quantity' to be more fitting with a hotel room booking system? If not are there any 3rd party shopping carts that work with ikobo and can be modified to work with a hotel booking assuming the availability has already been confirmed at my end before the customer has been transfered to Ikobo? If this is also not possible, where can I find the details so that our php guy can write a script that fits with what we need and can work with the Ikobo authentication?
Sorry for the long post, thanks in advance!
Chris