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IC Pay is one of the few payment services that will process payments for sales of adult content.

IC Pay provides a secure connection to a payment page, which is hosted on their server. It does NOT use the local orderform.php page and hence cannot use the TeleSign service for credit card fraud prevention.

IC Pay is different from most other payment services in that there two separate procedures required for processing orders for physical products and orders for digital products.

Physical product sales can only be done from the shopping cart with "auth" (authorize only) transactions, which means that no payment will be transfered until the merchant logs in to his IC Pay SiteManager and captures it in the Orders screen. This payment process will NOT activate orders automatically in the shopping cart. To complete the order in the shopping cart and send a store receipt, click the "activate" link in the emailed AShop order notice after the payment has been captured.

Digital product sales will be authorized AND captured immediately from shopping cart transactions.

Unfortunately, having separate methods for handling physical and digital products causes a limitation and potential conflict where both types of products are sold by the same merchant. For example, if both physical and digital products are added to the cart within a single order, the transaction must be handled as if it is for physical products, which means that orders for digital products will not be delivered until the payment is manually captured through the IC Pay SiteManager and the order is manually activated through the shopping cart admin panel. There is no way within a single shopping cart to separate the product types or to force one payment option or another based upon the type of product(s) that are in each order. If both IC Pay payment options are available at checkout, the selection is left up to each customer, which is not predictable and may be prone to errors. Because of this limitation, if both types of products are offered only the IC Pay Physical Goods payment option should be available to customers.

How to Add the IC Pay Payment Option in AShop V

There are two separate Payment options for IC Pay: IC Pay Physical Goods and IC Pay Digital Goods.

1.	Generate a Secret Key.

2.	Change the Notification Config setting in the IC Pay SiteManager. Enter the URL to the AShop order.php script in the URL box, for example: http://www.yourdomain.com/ashop/order.php

1.	Click Configuration and then Payment.

2.	Select the IC Pay option for the type of products that will be sold: physical goods or digital goods.

3.	Add the payment option.

4.	Enter the IC Pay User ID in the Merchant ID box for the payment option.

5.	Enter the Secret Key in the Security Secret box for the payment option.

6.	Save the changes.