README for the Perl module Business::OCV

	Copyright (c) 1999/2000 University of New South Wales 
	Benjamin Low <b.d.low@unsw.edu.au>. All rights reserved.

	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
	modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
	Artistic License for more details.


DESCRIPTION
-----------

This module provides an interface to the Ingenico Online Credit Verification 
Server (OCV) (see http://www.ingenico.com.au). The OCV server provides an 
interface into the bank network and allows credit card transactions to be
processed in real-time.

Usage:

# create a connection to the OCV server
$ocv = new OCV
(
	Server   => '192.1.2.3:53005', 
	ClientID => 'MyClient', 
	Account  => '1',
);

# process a purchase transaction (amount is in cents)
if ($m = $ocv->purchase(CardNum=>'4...3' CardExpiry=>'0202', Amount=>'1000'))
{
  warn "Warning: $@" if $@;
  print "Purchase result: " . $m->Result . "\n";
}
else
{
  warn "Error: $@";
}

The interface is complete, including
 - full logging
 - internal totals support
 - polled mode support
 - all transaction types (purchase, refund, pre-auth, completion, status)
 - statistics
 - VPP configuration and status
 - account list
 - server totals

The only thing missing is complete support for 'logons', as Ingenico state 
this is deprecated as a client request.

TODO
----

- update and convert documentation to pod form

FUTURE WORK
-----------

- Add support for shared server connections
- Implement a Business::OnlinePayment interface
- Add support for logging to a DBI backend


INSTALLATION
------------

To install, unpack the archive and in the newly created directory type:

        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make install

Use
        perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=<location>

to install somewhere other than the default.