PCI DSS Compliant Payment Gateways Available Through Magento Connect

Having a PCI DSS compliant payment gateway is essential for most businesses, especially for enterprise solutions. Even some of the better known gateways are not PCI compliant, the most notable example in the UK is RBS WorldPay, who were recently dropped from Visa’s list of compliant payment providers.

What follows is a list of gateways that use a PCI compliant service provider based upon the VISA list and gateways available through Magento Connect. I do not endorse or guarantee the functionality of any of these modules, although I have had positive experiences with the SagePay integration.

• SagePay, formerly Protx
• ChronoPay
• CyberSource
• FastTransact
• PaySimple
• ACH Payment (Commercial: $175)
• Amazon FPS (Commercial: $275)
• BeanStream (2 Available, Commercial: $175 and $299)
• eProcessing Network (Commercial: $175)
• FirstData, formerly LinkPoint (Commercial: $175)
• Optimal Payments (Commercial: $75)
• PayJunction (Commercial: $175)
• PSIGate (Commercial: $175)
• Plug & Pay (Commercial: $175)
• TransFirst (Commercial: $125)
• TrustCommerce (Commercial: $175)
• USA ePay (Commercial: $175)
• YourPay.com (Commercial: $175)

If I’ve missed anything, please let me know, will try and keep this list updated!

Installing Google Analytics On Your Magento Stores

Installing Google Analytics is simple, just extract your unique identifier from Google Analytics. The unique identifier for each site can be found next to the URL, like so:

http://www.example.com/   UA-1234567-1

Then go to your admin panel URL and navigate to System -> Configuration -> Google API -> Google Analytics

Or add: /system_config/edit/section/google/ to your admin panel URL.

Remember, you can add different unique tracking identifiers to different stores and store views by selecting the relevant store or view from the dropdown on the left hand side of the configuration panel.

Varien Launch Magento Enterprise Edition

Varien yesterday launched a new enterprise version of Magento, interestingly many regular users of the forum will note that a lot of the additional functionality included in this new version is what ‘community edition’ users have been crying out for, particularly the ability to limit catalog access to certain customers (I assume on a group basis) by category or globally across stores.

I think it will be interesting to see in the coming months if any of the enterprise functionality makes it into Magento Connect, be it on an open source or commercial license. This would give community edition users the opportunity to ‘bolt on’ enterprise features.

At a cost of $8,900 a year, I think it will be interesting to see if Varien can continue to keep the Enterprise Edition significantly ahead of the Community Edition in the coming months and what other value added services they will be offering with it.

I would love to hear other people’s thoughts on the new edition.