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The Toro Credit Administrator has been released as a plugin to Eclipse. The current version is 0.0.5 alpha.

Expect to see a full runnable application release in the next day or so, I'm having network troubles that prevent me from uploading the 7MB file...

The only feature currently available in the Administration client is the server log file viewer. You are welcome to download and try it out. Please, please, as always send your feedback to us, and report any bugs you may find in the bug tracking tool here at sourceforge.... read more

The client API for the Toro credit server was released for the first time today as version 0.0.1 alpha. This is a Java language version, distributed as a jar file.

The client API is a set of libraries that can be used by third-parties to integrate credit authorization functionality into your applications. It handles all of the socket communication, and byte buffer building and allows you the developer to concentrate on building your application.... read more

If you download the server, please take a moment to tell us what you think of it. We're looking for ways to continue to improve this software and every bit of feedback would be greatly appreciated. Please visit our forums and let us know how we could improve this software to better fit YOUR needs.

jason

A second alpha release has just been made available for download. This release includes working support for both direct marketing and e-commerce transactions including fixes to AVS and CVV2/CVC2/CID support.

The next alpha release will include stability fixes and settlement support.

We are also starting on a server log file viewer that should be available in the next month or so.

jason

We are very excited to be developing and releasing this project as an open-source product. We are in the process of doing an initial CVS import of all our existing source. We will then be publishing an initial alpha release of the server.

I would now like to take the opportunity to introduct the Toro Credit Server and explain what it is and how we see it being used. The server is a stand-alone TCP/IP server that accepts credit and debit authorizations and submits them to the appropriate authorization gateway. It can support multiple vendors simultaneously. Currently the only vendor we support is Vital (a member of VisaNET) but we have plans to support FirstData and Concorde in the near future. The server currently supports card-present transactions, direct marketing and e-commerce transactions in a retail environment. We have plans to fully support debit before the first production release.... read more