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Recently I have been reading a lot about online credit card transactions. My project is similar to Booking.com, basically the workflow is something like that:

1) User find a hotel

2) User clicks on the button to book the hotel, then

3) User is redirected to checkout page, where he has to type his credit card

4) My system will "collect" his credit card, DO SOMETHING .. and here I'm lost...

I know that I can't save the credit card info, NEVER, so, how I will send it to the hotel? Because the hotel will charge the user, not me.

Any ideas?

Lara
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The various credit card processors are online. You initiate transactions with them. Getting your software and environment certified with them is non-trivial, which is why most vendors outsource that to a service.

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  • How you interact with the hotel(s) is a whole 'nother ball of wax too. – John Hascall Jan 05 '16 at 04:12
  • In addition, the most popular is Paypal, and [there are benefits to adding it](http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/48255/does-adding-paypal-to-a-checkout-increase-conversion-rate). There are a few other good ones out there too though. – Alex L Jan 05 '16 at 04:13
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After a long time searching, reading and learning, I found the solution.

Even discouraged, YES you can store the data, according to this guide, page 14

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/pci_ssc_quick_guide.pdf

Also this question helped me a lot : https://stackoverflow.com/a/4304748/3350765

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