Introduction
Cardlink VPOS is an application that is designed for processing merchant payments in ecommerce environment. The input to VPOS are payment requests originating at the merchant shopping solution. These requests are processed by VPOS and the output (transaction approved or declined) is sent back to the merchant shopping solution.
Cardlink VPOS can process payments in two methods. Direct XML or by Redirection to a specific page. This chapter describes the Direct XLM methodology and it should be noted that the PCI Compliance is a pre-requisite for this one. More information about PCI Compliance can be accessed here.
The payment methods that the merchant solution will use (credit, debit cards, Visa, Mastercard etc.) are decided by the merchant and provided that they are supported by Cardlink VPOS, they can be tested in this tool. Cardlink VPOS core design enables multiple types of merchant interfaces to be implemented.
Merchants can easily attach their look and feel to payment pages by supplying their own custom CSS stylesheet.
This document describes the newest versions (4.1 and 2.1) of interfaces based on RSA SHA256 signature security (4.1) and shared secret based SHA2-256 digest (2.1).