Rails - Apr 2010 - Almost not a technical question

Hi,
I would like to develop a paying system like Groupon.com does. For those
who don''t know about groupon, you can purchase coupon only if the
coupon
as been sold "n" number of times. But when you pay you are charged
only
if the limit number of people has been reached.
This means then save somehow your credit card number somewhere and
charged you when the sell is done.

My question is how, where do they do their paying thing?

Greg
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Greg Ma
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> But when you pay you are charged only
> if the limit number of people has been reached.
> This means then save somehow your credit card number somewhere and
> charged you when the sell is done.
>
> My question is how, where do they do their paying thing?
I would imagine most if not all payment gateways (e.g. Authorize.net)
allow a "Authorization Only" submittal; the card is only actually
charged
with a subsequent "Prior Authorization Capture" using a transaction id
or some other token, which means there''s no need to retain the actual
card data on the site (a very good thing!).

HTH,
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