Internet Business Consulting Services (ibcscorp) has been doing ongoing web development work for the site Together Forever International (togetherforeverint.com). Together Forever is a Russian and Ukrainian women connection service that wanted to add more up-to-date online dating tools to their site.

“Your best resource for thousands of Russian and Ukrainian women.” The site is the place to network and explore possible love connections with women from these specific countries. The site will provide current online dating tools such as: online chat, video chat, and the abilities to search through profiles.

iBCScorp created the site using Ruby on Rails. iBCScorp is currently rewriting the application to make video chat services available and also working to modify membership and subscription services through the site.  Administrators of the site will also be able to manage the text content on their own by using build in features from Refinery Content Management System (CMS).  RefineryCMS is a relatively new CMS system, giving leverage to the IBCSCorp developers making it easier and faster to add CMS features to a very complicated site.

For marketing and SEO purposes having a Content Management system that allows for the posting of articles and newsletters is vital.

iBCScorp is a web development company located in St. George, Utah with another office location in Sri Lanka. For a free consultation on your website, please call 435-215-4674 or the toll free number 1-877-778-7882.

ZionPet.com has a new catalog of over 20,000 items available for sale.

This project was done using Spree Shopping cart.  The back end system is really easy to use for ZionPet to fulfill orders.  Monthly, the catalog is updated from their vendors with new pricing. Old items are discontinued and new items are added.  With hundreds of manufacturers and thousands of products it is very convenient for Zion Pet that their whole catalog is automatically managed for them.

SuesPetCastle.com is a pet store located in sunny St. George, Utah. Sues Pet Castle Retail Store has over 10,000 square foot of retail space with over 20,000 products in stock!

This was done using Ruby on Rails and MySQL.

iBCScorp.com developed for them a back office management system which manages those agents. At the time they where a multilevel marketing company. So custom PHP programming was done to record agent profiles into a MySQL database. The agents then where able to add their own recruits as well as see their down-line for everyone they had recruited into the company.

Later the company changed to not be a multilevel company and some additional features where added. This was done using the popular Cake PHP framework. Some of the additional modules include:

Vendor Management

Administrators are able to add, edit and modify the vendors that their agents use to sell travel. This is beneficial for those agents, for the internal staff because they can put all the information the agents need into the vendor system rather than taking calls from those vendors. It also is beneficial for SEO purposes for people who are looking for an agency who deals with the particular products carried by those vendors. Additional functionality we would like to add which was not in the budget included better search features, browsing and even being able to purchase from those vendors directly online.

E-Commerce

Agents are able to sign up and sign up other agents directly including recurring billing.

Online selling of travel

Somewhat unique to this site as apposed to other non-travel sites is the ability for agents to directly purchase/or sell travel online through an online booking engine. When the travel is sold, the agent has the opportunity to include a markup on that travel for as much as they would like.

CMS Features

WordPress was used to provide the content management system. This is an extremely nice benefit for an agency trying to promote itself in the online world. It allows them to add and manage content at will including posting new travel deals, hot travel sites, travel tips, or whatever other creative ideas they can think of.

The basic requirements are that:

1. “Balance response transactions — For prepaid and gift cards, once the card has been used, the remaining account balance will be transmitted along with the authorization response. The remaining balance must be printed on the customer receipt, displayed on the Web page or point-of-sale terminal, or both.”-Authorize.net
2. “Partial authorization transactions — When a customer’s transaction amount exceeds the balance available on their debit, prepaid or gift card, instead of declining the transaction, a partial authorization for the amount available to the customer will be returned. This will allow the customer to pay for the remaining amount with another form of payment. This is called a split-tender transaction.” – Autorize.net
3. “Authorization reversals — An authorization reversal is a real-time transaction initiated when the customer decides that they do not want to proceed with the transaction, or if the merchant cannot complete the transaction for any reason. Authorization reversals free up the customer’s available balance on their debit, prepaid or gift card.” -Authorize.net

Internet Business Consulting Services Corporation (IBCScorp.com) is an authorize.net merchant. We are working on making all Authorize.net sites compliant with these regulations by modifying code to interact with Authorize.net’s API in such a way as to meet the necessary requirements. Authorize.net will be modifying their system to meet these requirements. Our goal is to be able to support these requirements by the time Authorize.net makes the api to meet these requirements available.

If your site is not compliant or if your not sure if it is compliant, feel free to contact us to help you meet the Mastercard Processing Requirements. If you are using Authorize.net or some other Payment gateway at some point compliance with these regulations will be mandatory.