Chris Norton » payment

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Chris Norton — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:38:20 +0000

It seems a new extension has been released on Magento Connect that provides integration with SecurePay’s SecureXML payment gateway. I find this rather interesting as this extension is commercial, at a fairly substantial cost of $175, and provides the same integration as an extension I created back in September! Why would anyone create an extension that has already been released for free, then attempt to charge money for it?

I’d like to know if anyone actually forks out money for this.

BPAY Added to Australian Magento Module

Chris Norton — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:48:21 +0000

I got BPAY working last night and have added it, as well as the direct deposit functionality created previously, to the Australia module page on the Fontis site. Hopefully the instructions are clear enough: the module as a whole is started to get more complicated now that I had to start defining custom template files.

The Magento Machine Rolls On: Direct Deposit Added

Chris Norton — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:17:34 +0000

I have just finished adding a basic direct deposit payment module to my Australian Magento module. Development only took a day – again, because I didn’t understand some basic things to do with the Magento/Zend framework – and was mostly done by replicating functionality for the Check/Money Order module that’s already in Magento. Although direct deposit is currently lumped in with the rest of the Australian stuff I could always extract it if people in other countries would find it useful. I’m not sure how popular a payment method it is overseas.

The next order of business will be cleaning up the code for release and then moving on to the development of a BPAY payment method, which should be pretty similar to direct deposit.