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Sending Credit Card Numbers Securely

swopeoffice 10 Feb, 2011
How simple would it be to send credit card numbers to email? Is that bad practice? I have a lawncare site that people send their credit card #'s through currently using Infusionsoft. Is it possible to send these credit card #'s securely to my email, then I can input them in Quickbooks?

Is there a better way period to do this?
GreyHead 10 Feb, 2011
Hi SwopeOffice,

Collecting credit card numbers is pretty risky pracice. Sending them by email is not a good idea.

Why not save them to a dayabase table (maybe encrypted) and copy and paste them into Quickbooks from there?

Bob
swopeoffice 11 Feb, 2011
That's kind of what I was thinking. How would they get the encrypted ones out of the database though?

Ideally - I need this to tie into quickbooks I know there is an API for them, but we're trying to keep from using their merchant services. Just need a simple way to collect the #'s.
GreyHead 11 Feb, 2011
Hi SwopeOffice ,

I'd probably get them out of the database with an Admin Only form or listing that included the decrypt code.

Bob
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