Orbital is a payment gateway offered by Chase Paymentech. You can get more information about Orbital here:
http://www.paymentech.com/solgat.do
Squirrelcart is a certified Value Added Resource for Orbital. This means that Orbital has certified that Squirrelcart works with their system. This allows you to setup Squirrelcart to use Orbital without having to go through as many certification steps with Orbital as you normally would.
Squirrelcart supports accepting credit cards and electronic checks through Orbital.
Orbital uses Squirrelcart's Server to Server connection method, which requires the following:
Orbital has 2 processing platforms that it supports. They are referred to as
Tampa and
Salem. You will need to know which platform your Orbital account uses. If you are in the United States and are not accepting electronic checks you are most likely on their Tampa platform. If you are unsure which platform you are on, contact Orbital for assistance.
- While Squirrelcart is certified for Orbital, you will still need to certify that your website is working properly with Orbital. To start this process, contact Orbital support and let them know you are read to being the certification process. Inform them that you are using Squirrecart (provided by Lighthouse Development), and that we are a certified VAR. They will provide you with instructions for their certification process. This process will include sending the IP address of your web server to Orbital so they can add it to their firewall access list.
- Login to Squirrlecart's control panel, and click the Payment Gateways menu link:
- Click on the row for the record labeled Orbital
- Enter your merchant identifier number in the Merchant ID field. As of this writing, if you are using the Tampa platform your account will be 12 digits. If you are using the Salem platform, your account will be 6 digits.
- In the Platform Number field, enter one of the following numbers, based on the platform you are on:
For Tampa: 000002
For Salem: 000001
Be sure to enter the number exactly as it appears above or connection will fail.
- In the Terminal ID field, enter the terminal ID provided by Orbital (default is 001)
- Choose your transaction type using the Transaction Type field.
- Make sure the Connection Method field is set to Store Hosted / Server to Gateway
- Set the Currency Code field using the table below as a reference
Currency |
Code |
US Dollar |
840 |
Canadian Dollar |
124 |
British Pound |
826 |
Sweden Krona |
752 |
Norwegian Kroner |
578 |
Danish Krone |
208 |
Swiss Franc |
756 |
Australian Dollars |
036 |
New Zealand Dollars |
554 |
Hong Kong Dollar |
344 |
Japanese Yen |
392 |
Euro |
978 |
Singapore Dollar |
702 |
South African Rand |
710 |
- Check the Enabled field
- If you wish to use Orbital's test certification servers, check the Test Mode field. Uncheck this for production use.
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