Note that information below is for Tone Tone Card Processing.  AnyOrder also supports Gateway credit card processing.

For: Levels 3 and Above

The credit card processing portion of the Level III (and higher) programs can be used if you have a small volume of cards--two to five cards a day--and you have signed up for voice or touch tone processing with your bank.  Note that if you don't use voice or touch tone processing or if you have a higher card volume, you'll want to use Gateway processing or third party credit card processing software. To do so, AnyOrder has a credit card export feature which allows you to export card information to third party software such as IC Verify and others.  We also intend to integrate IC Verify into the program.

The rest of the information below is about Touch Tone Processing . . .

For touch tone processing, AnyOrder doesn't communicate with the processing center's computer.  It only inputs the information as requested during a voice or touch-tone processing call.

Voice and touch-tone processing are two of several methods in which you can process credit cards.  (You sign up for the type of card processing you want and a merchant's credit card account through a bank.  You'll need to have a merchant's account set up with your bank in order to use AnyOrder's card processing feature.)

Voice or touch-tone processing is the type of processing that you would choose if you have a low volume of cards and you want to keep things simple.  When you use either system, you call the processing center, and then the processing center's computer will ask you to key-in your merchant number, the customer's card number, the expiration date and amount.

It isn't easy keying in all those numbers.  AnyOrder, however, gathers all appropriate information from the invoice.  When you're ready, you click on a button and AnyOrder calls the processing center for you.  When the processing center comes on the line and asks for the merchant number, you click on the merchant number button and AnyOrder keys in the number for you.  When the processing center asks for the credit card number, you do the same thing, and AnyOrder! keys it in for you.  And so on.

Then when everything is keyed in, the processing center's computer will come back with the authorization number which you write down or type into a dialog box provided by AnyOrder.

Basically what AnyOrder! does is to take the place of a person trying to punch all the buttons on the phone.  You simply get everything set up in advance, and when prompted by the processing center, you click with your mouse to enter the numbers. It takes away all the hassles of authorizing cards using voice or touch tone processing.

It's the system that we use with our small publishing company.  We only process a couple of cards a day, and we couldn't justify investing in expensive card readers or complex software.  We just wanted something simple and inexpensive, and since I'm a programmer, I developed the card processor to fill our needs and that of other folks who find themselves in the same situation.

This way of processing cards, of course, isn't for every business.  Businesses with other systems in place will want to keep using those.  Some businesses may find AnyOrder's processing features handy as a supplemental system when there's only a card or two to verify.  Other businesses with a low card volume may find that it's just what the doctor ordered.