sailor

I am in the midst of setting up a website for a friend. We need a section that is members only, and it needs to interface with an online payment system.

Essentially what will happen is that a user will come to the site, go to the "Join" page where they can enter their CC info, email, etc. Then, they will be automatically given a username (their email) and a password (a randomly generated one).

Anyone know of good merchant accounts/payment services? Anyone know of some that will allow me to interface with them so that I can have it automatically register the user when they are paid? Recurring monthly payments are another biggie.

The site is written in PHP, and the merchant system will need to be able to interface with that. I havent done any work with merchant services before, and Im hoping someone here can give me a little info to get me started.

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