Some people want to capture their own credit card numbers to run through a terminal as a quick and easy way to get their online store going. For this we provide Capture Card, however please be aware that the fact that you are responsible for your customers credit card details makes this far from simple and we strongly advise using one of the online credit card processors unless you are fully aware of all security issues involved.

You will need a SSL certificate installed, either your own or shared from your host.

Please follow the capture card wizard below for set up instructions:

Capture Card Wizard

IMPORTANT NOTE
To reduce security risks set the automatic deleting of credit card information to a workable minimum level - we would suggest that 2 days is more than ample time. This setting can be found on the main admin page. You can also manually delete the credit card information from your database by hitting the "delete" button. We strongly advise that you delete the credit card information as quickly as possible to reduce the security risks. It is also imperative to keep up to date with the latest updaters which are released at regular intervals.

Troubleshooting

Here is a list of possible error messages and the resolution:

This page contains both secure and non secure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?
Make sure all of the images used on the thanks.php and cart.php have been uploaded to the secure server

Here is a checklist for troubleshooting:

I can get a card to process on the secure server I've established. When I try to read the number by accessing the control panel, I get an error message that says "You appear not to be on a https server..."
There seems to be some hosts which use some kind of proxy system for shared SSL space, and that confuses the checks for server SSL. If you are absolutely sure that you are on a secure server, then set
$nochecksslserver=TRUE;
...in your vsadmin/includes.php file.

I don't receive the credit card details in my confirmation email but can view them through the control panel
Credit card numbers are not sent via email for security reasons - they can only be viewed over a secure connection in your admin orders page.

I can't see the credit card details in the orders admin page
Make sure you are viewing the orders page over a secure https connection.