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[rowby]

The documentation on activating authorizenet is horribly sparse, but authorizenet does indeed work. I made it work just now.

The good news is IT's EASY!

Here are step by step instructions on how to do it.  (Others are invited to jump in with their comments.)

1)  Make sure your hosting company has  PHP 4.0.2 or later, with cURL extension (with OpenSSL support). If you are not sure, contact your hosting company.  This is essential.

2)  In the VirtueMart control panel, click on List Payment Methods.  Make sure Credit Card is active.

3) Click on Credit Card.  Make sure the cards (Visa, Mastercard, whatever) you have set up with your authorizenet.com account are checkmarked, and the other cards are not checkmarked.

4) Click on Configuration tab.  Type in your authorizenet.com Login ID.  Keep it in Test mode for now. Click "Show/Change the Transaction Key" button.

5) Where it says "Please type in your User Password:" enter your JOOMLA user password that you have previously set up on your site. (NOT the authorizent.com password.) 

6)  A box will appear where you enter the Authorizenet's current transaction key.  In the bottom box re-enter your Joomla user password.  Save the panel.   (***)

7)  Make sure Authorizenet is in TEST mode  by logging into your authorizenet account at authorizenet.com)


8   Go to your store and do  a TEST order.  Use the following TEST credit card to do your authorizenet test. Note: The below card only works in TEST mode and will return an error in live mode.)

5424000000000015 MasterCard.   Use any fake name and use any date after today's date as the card expiration date.

9) Once the above works, go to authorizenet.com and change your account from TEST to LIVE.  And go into the Virtuemart Credit Card configuration tab and change authorizenet from TEST to LIVE.

10) Then do a test charge with a real card.  You can go back to authorizenet.com and VOID that card charge if you do it before the settlement process takes place. 

*** NOTE: You get your transaction key by logging into your authorizenet.com account and creating one under Authorizenet's Settings and Profile link> Obtain Transaction Key link.

ANOTHER NOTE: Interestingly, the above worked WITHOUT the test site using a secure certificate.  However I strongly suggest you set up a secure certificate for your site. 

That's it! 

Rowby Goren
http://www.rowby.com

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[Picasso Fish]

Hi,

Tried all your steps and got the following errors:

Error: (TESTMODE) The merchant login ID or password is invalid or the account is inactive.
Error: Failure in Processing the Payment (ps_authorize)

[artecc]

Have you found that the merchant email receipt from Authorize.net contains mismatched fields from VirtueMart? For example, the email isn't transferred that Authorize.net.

I upgraded from PHP-Shop and that's the only problem I'm having with the process.

Thanks!

[rowby]

Ummm the site is barely live but I will keep an eye out for that problem.  And get back to you here.

Rowby

[hvogel]

   Dude!  I have been struggeling w / authorize.net for a while with the OScommerce.  I followed your lead here and within 20-min its now working!

Very exciting.

Thanks so much,

hvogel

[jplc]

Heh, nice to know I wasn't the only one having issues with osCommerce and Authorize.net 

[cytherea]

Anyone has any tips on how to implement the state fields?

I'm using the Authorize.net payment gateway and it needs the state fields to be filled in. Otherwise it doesnt accept the payment. But for the most countries there is no state filled in.

Maybe someone can help me.

[rowby]

Glad to hear my tips helped!

[Daniel Wagner]

Anyone have an issue with rejected Authorize.net payments? VM does not return useful error codes and does not allow the customer to attempt to correct the problem and re-submit the order. After submitting final order customer appears to be redirected to the first checkout page and receives errors like:

    Error: This transaction has been declined.
    Error: Failure in Processing the Payment (ps_authorize)

Then when clicking on next the cart is emptied and customer is redirected to the store home page.

[guilliam]

Code:

Warning: fgets(): SSL: fatal protocol error in

/home/******/public_html/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/payment/ps_authorize.php on line 394

im getting this now.. however i have a feeling this is because curl is not compiled. will recompile then give this a shot again.

thanks for the tips mate!

- g

[guilliam]

Error: 3-1-103-P---This transaction cannot be accepted.
Error: Failure in Processing the Payment (ps_authorize)

ANY IDEAS?

[Daniel Wagner]

I would guess that your transaction key or password is wrong. I responded to your post here: http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=71&topic=16717.msg36906#msg36906

[simbo1905]

Dan put up an excellent patch to fix up the error handing in the authorize.net module which you can pickup here:
http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=71&topic=16717.msg36707#msg36707

[benr]

I have followed the instructions above for setting up the Authorize.net functionality in payment options.  But I'm still getting this error:

Error: 3-1-103-P---(TESTMODE) This transaction cannot be accepted.
Error: Failure in Processing the Payment (ps_authorize)

We are currently running in Test Mode on Authorize.net.  I have double checked the API login and Transaction Key and they are correct.  I'm at a loss here...  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

[Jason]

I am getting that same error as well.  Is this just because I am using a test acount from Authorize.net?

Help?