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Credit Card validation: can Card Name contain non-ASCII characters?
The character set that is used does not allow for diacritics. In brief, it only allows uppercase ASCII characters. The restriction ultimately comes from the historical way in which banking cards encode data onto the magnetic stripe (as defined in ISO 7811). The data is encoded in a 7 bits per character format known as … Read more
Storing Credit Card Number – PCI?
1) Yes, it is allowed but very, very discouraged. Having this information in your database makes you an extremely attractive target for hackers. And if you think you can protect it, think again. Hackers have defeated the security of companies with excellent security. Your security won’t be any better. 2) You have to follow the … Read more
What’s the best option to process credit card payments in Django? [closed]
As mentioned in the previous answer, you need a merchant account and a payment gateway. I’d recommend BrainTree if you’re processing enough payments that they’ll accept you. They act as both if you want them to. They also have a Python API for processing payments. It will be much easier to set up. I don’t … Read more
Saving credit card information in MySQL database? [closed]
As mentioned above, do not store credit card information in a database. It’s a recipe for trouble. Doing so will make you a very attractive target for hackers and, if they are successful in retrieving them, end your business and potentially ruin your life as well as the lives of those whose credit card numbers … Read more
Storing credit card details
Basically avoid by all means taking the responsiblity to save the CC details on your side, however I can assume you are using a thirdparty service to do your transaction such as PayPal/Verisign or whatever, most of them have API’s that enables you to save CC credentials at their side, and they give you back … Read more
Credit card expiration dates in which timezone?
In short, even if the current time of the transaction seems suspect, you can just run the card transaction. Let the payment network decide how it wishes to handle the case. This is as stated by Stephen Newell, here, though it isn’t necessarily correct to say ‘Transaction Server’. Here’s an in-depth on why, and why … Read more