Can ActiveMerchant handle asynchronous payment methods?

[ma...@goodlife.tw]

In Asia asynchronous payment methods are common. For example, during the transaction, the online shop can give the user a special bank account to transfer the payment into. Another way is for the online shop to give the user a code, which the user can use to pay at convenience stores. (There are gateway providers for these operations.) These methods are asynchronous, meaning that payments can come in at a later time, ranging from a few hours to a few days. (I am not sure the proper terminology for this.)

Does ActiveMerchant interface work with these kind of methods? My quick look seems to say no, but I would like to be proven wrong :)

[Nathaniel Talbott]

ActiveMerchant has two distinct API's: gateways and integrations. Some of the integrations are async, and the API for integrations supports that, but the gateway API is aimed squarely at synchronous transactions.

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Nathaniel

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:19 PM, <ma...@goodlife.tw> wrote:

In Asia asynchronous payment methods are common. For example, during the transaction, the online shop can give the user a special bank account to transfer the payment into. Another way is for the online shop to give the user a code, which the user can use to pay at convenience stores. (There are gateway providers for these operations.) These methods are asynchronous, meaning that payments can come in at a later time, ranging from a few hours to a few days. (I am not sure the proper terminology for this.)

Does ActiveMerchant interface work with these kind of methods? My quick look seems to say no, but I would like to be proven wrong :)

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[ma...@goodlife.tw]

Thank you. I am trying to implement an integration. Seems to work after some hacking.

I want to ask a few things:

1. Is it standard to call acknowledge() then call complete?() ? I have seen examples of both. Which is more semantically correct?
2. What should item_id and transaction_id mean semantically in notification?

Cheers

Nathaniel於 2013年3月26日星期二UTC+8下午10時27分15秒寫道：