Subj : credits
To   : Sys64738
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Nov 30 2021 10:32 pm

  Re: credits
  By: Sys64738 to All on Tue Nov 30 2021 11:57 pm

 > A friend is asking me to help him set up a BBS for his business.
 > Particularly, he's wanting to utilize Syncronet to keep up with his
 > customer's tabs. He runs a small bar with a membership fee for some
 > upper-crust types.
 >
 > Anyway, I told him about the "Credit Transfer Bank" door
 > (https://web.synchro.n
 > et/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=sbbs_3rd&file=CTB.ZIP) because he
 > wanted to allow his members to be able to help each other out with their
 > tabs if they were in a pinch.
 >
 > Also, I told him about
 > "DTELLER"
 > (https://web.synchro.net/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=sbbs_3
 > rd&file=DTELLER.ZIP)
 >
 > and "DSHOPPER"
 > (https://web.synchro.net/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=s
 > bbs_3rd&file=DSHOPPER.ZIP)
 >
 > because he'd like to be able to allow his customers to buy credits using ABA
 > routing and account numbers, or credit/debit cards.
 >
 > I'm not new to programming.  I've been doing it since the mid-80's.
 > However, my skills are rather dated, and I'm definitely green to Javascript
 > and Baja.
 >
 > Eventually, he'd like to add a web interface, but that's further down the
 > road and not an immediate desire.  He'll make do with making BBS accounts
 > for his members and showing them how to use it on their phones using a term
 > app.
 >
 > So, I'm reaching out for help.  Anyone interested?
 >
 > Digital Man: You can probably guess this is why I kept asking about CTB and
 > whatnot a while back...lol

This all just screams at me: wrong tool for the job.

Domain teller and shopper used dial-up modems for credit card authorizations, I don't even know if they would work any more (haven't the credit card auth standards/methods changed since the 90's?) and certainly those programs can't be registered/purchased any longer.

And terminal apps on phones are terrible. Unless his upper-crust customers are
all all old computer/BBS nerds (like us), no one is going to want to use this idea.
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