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First off, thanks go to Eileen for posting some information on comparing payment processors on the wiki:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviContribute+Payment+Processor+Configuration.

From the little information I've been able to gather, Moneris seems like it's worth considering as a payment processor, but I have still questions:

1) Is the information about configuring Moneris on the wiki current? Is it really true for CiviCRM 2.2.7 that to use Moneris I must edit the configuration file? I'm talking about what's here:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Moneris+Configuration+Guide

[Modification 07-21-2009: the info referenced above was, apparently, obsolete and has since been removed. Just thought I'd say to save anyone being confused. ~farmrchrys]

It seems like Moneris is in the list of built-in (core?) payment processors and looks to be ready to configure right from Global Settings / Settings - Payment Processor. Not a word there about editing the configuration file, or, if it's the case, that it's a community-contributed feature. Maybe that would be helpful.

2) I spoke to a salesperson at Moneris US. He said what I needed was what Moneris calls a "hosted pay page". Users would be re-directed away from my site to a secure Moneris website to complete the transaction. He didn't seem to know about any other option. However, when I look at their US website, I see two options:

1) eSELECTplus Application Program Interface Interface (API) option provides you with control over the entire shopping process as it integrates easily into your web store. Moneris transaction APIs are available in a variety of different web programming languages and enable you to process transactions directly from your website.

2) eSELECTplus Secure Payment Page option is hosted by Moneris and seamlessly re-directs your customer to a secure payment page that allows them to pay for goods. There is no need to purchase an SSL certificate, and all cardholder information is captured and protected by Moneris.

I guess CiviCRM is set up to use the API (option 1). Anyone know how CiviCRM could be set up to use option 2, the hosted pay page? Anyone using Moneris with any degree of success?

So I tried a test conference registration from my development site, jumped through all the hoops (except hacking the core as described in the wiki) and ended up with this error

Payment Processor Error message
: 9002:Invalid currency selection, must be $CAD
9002:Invalid configuration:USD, you must use currency $CAD with Moneris

which seems to indicate that I should have hacked the core as suggested but then, it makes me think I can't use Moneris at all since we're a US non-profit -- we can't have all our pricing in Canadian dollars. Or, is that just the starting point and you override that in Settings/Localization by setting your local currency and CiviCRM/Moneris handle the conversion, etc?

Then again, I have no idea how the test would have gone if I'd done the hack since it looks like you can't test with any amount higher than $11 and to test my price sets, etc. the amounts are higher.

Oh well, any responses would be appreciated. I guess I'll just stick with PayPal Pro unless someone can tell me, other than recurring transactions, what benefits Moneris has if, in fact, I could use it with USD. Then I would take the time to play with the config file.

I know my questions border on the stupid. I'm the first to admit I am that. My hope is that documentation is written so that even someone like me can make some progress.

Chrys

Actually I note from the documentation that you set the currency in your settings

define( 'CIVICONTRIBUTE_DEFAULT_CURRENCY' , 'CAD' ); // you must change this from default USD

so that change is likely to work if you set your default currency to USD

Lobo - does that mean # 2 should be removed entirely from this wiki page?

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Moneris+Configuration+Guide

OK - I think I edited it to be correct. (It says less now). If anyone can take a quick look...

I suspect that the code above (restricting the currency) should be removed.

farmrchrys  - if you do test it and it works for US currency without those lines please confirm back as I suspect that they should be patched out.

Hmm - those weren't the lines I found - you've commented 60-62 on my install. The lines I spotted were 70-72

Note - you shouldn't comment out this line:

$currencyID = $config->defaultCurrency;

I'm guessing you didn't comment out the closing } for the first if statement: (
 
       $currencyID = $config->defaultCurrency;
//     if ('CAD' != $currencyID) {
//      return self::error('Invalid configuration:'.$currencyID.', you must use currency $CAD with Moneris');
//  Configuration error: // //      default currency must be CAD
//        }
    }

    function doDirectPayment( &$params ) {
      # make sure i've been called correctly ...
      if ( ! $this->_profile ) {
          return self::error('Unexpected error, missing profile');
      }
//      if ($params['currencyID'] != 'CAD') {
//        return self::error('Invalid currency selection, must be $CAD');
//      }
      /* unused params: cvv not yet implemented, payment action ingored (should test for 'Sale' value?)
      [cvv2] => 000
      [ip_address] => 192.168.0.103
      [payment_action] => Sale
      [contact_type] => Individual
      [geo_coord_id] => 1 */
      # this code based on Moneris example code #
      ## create an mpgCustInfo object
      $mpgCustInfo = new mpgCustInfo();

(NB I've added an extra line break before Configuration Error so it wouldn't wrap)