thanks for your answers Corey

My hosting provider ( re-invent technologies ) does have a plan to set up https and a CSR - So does that mean I first have to get the hosting company( re-invent ) to somehow give the SSL certificate provider the CSR or do I have access to this CSR?

So if my hosting company sets me up with https, how do I get some pages to be https and others not? - I am still confused about this.

I have been in contact with authorize.net and they provided me with a developers key and login - this I assume I can use to test out transmition of payment transactions - I am assuming that this kind of handles the need to set up a merchant account as far as testing goes using their API.

Unfortunately I am in Canada and they only support US merchant accounts with their API. I so far have not been able to find something in Canada that is similar but I am not going to worry about that for now. I just want to clear up the technical details first.


So as far as all these shopping carts go - how come I do not see very much info about integrating the merchant account with them or info on making the pages dealing with sensitve issues secure? They give the impression that there is basically no setup involved - I find that hard to believe - There seems to me to have to be some sort of integration with your merchant account and the payment processor. Also do these shopping cart pages reside on their server or do you have to install them on your own host provider?

I seem to be really stuck on something that I have not been able to find too much info on. I don't know how other people are dealing with these issues but from the lack of info I can find, it does not seem to be a problem for them. Why me?

Thanks

-Barb