Making strides at Heartland

Recently, my company publicly announced their partnership with Big Commerce, a large scale e-Commerce provider. Having helped with this integration for the past several months, it feels great to know my work is making an impact!

Details:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/retailers-omni-commerce-heartland-payment-120500693.html

Heartland's merchants are now able to open an e-Commerce store and quickly make their product's available online (similar to Amazon's Web Store). After uploading their product inventories and setting up their online site at Big Commerce, they simply select Heartland as their payment gateway, and enter in their account verification details (a process I am intimately familiar with having developed the Heartland APIs). After verification is complete, they can publish their store to their custom domain and process all payments with Heartland (very cool!). Considering Heartland has very competitive rates for their payment processing, this is a huge win for the company and Heartland's clients.

Obviously I can't give specifics or share source code of the API, but I can share from a technical perspective that writing RESTful services/Web APIs and exposing them to your business partners makes your solutions much more flexible and dynamic. When a partner is able to instantly sign up and send billing details to your service, you are able to quickly synchronize information between parties, and make billing decisions in real-time. This really makes things easier on your downstream reporting applications, and when you have a service oriented architecture (SOA), partnerships become fast and easy to implement and offer instant feedback to all parties involved.

Great work to everyone who helped with the project!