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Considering using ccbill as a processor for an upcoming project. However in my world we don't allow for sending people to a third party site for processing. To the end user it has to be a seamless experience where they stay on our website.

The integration needed would be that we host both the payment processing and affiliate registration forms on our website. When a user completes those forms we POST that information to an API, and wait for the callback / response.

There would be two systems in place:

1) The customer form: A user wants to purchase the product. We host the form on our website, it contains all the necessary fields for ccbill's form, the user completes the form and submits it. We pull out the fields required for our CRM system (username, email, and password) and send the rest (the billing information) as a POST to ccbill. If we get back a good response from ccbill stating the payment went through, we would create an account for the user in our CRM using the three fields we captured from the form (username, email, password). Obviously, we would not be storing any sensitive information such as CC info, we would simply be hosting the forms on our system to forward that information onto the processor (over secured sockets layer).

2) The affiliate registration form: A user joins the site and wants to market the product to take a cut of sales they referred. Again, we host the form with all the necessary fields - when the user submits we send that as a POST to ccbill and wait for the response. That response would need to send back some information about their affiliate ID so we can append that information to the user object in our CRM (As we would be creating our own custom PURL system).

I did the livechat with someone at ccbill this morning, and according to that person it is not possible to self-host join forms and POST credit card information to ccbill. Which if true, would negate them as a possibility for this project.

My questions are: Is what this ccbill rep explained to me true? Are there any other options out there for a processor that has automated affiliate payouts - that let us self-host forms and POST that information to their system?

The key to our requirements are seamless signup on our end (easy enough with most processors and we do it all the time in eCommerce systems). The wrench in this one is automated affiliate payouts, which I've never actually done before outside of adult.

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