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Re: Skeuocard

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Post by justinph »

Very nice work. I've done lots of work with credit card fields because I work for a large non-profit that depends on credit card donations. I might just use this in the next iteration of our form. Good idea doing the detection in realtime.

My only gripe would be that it doesn't innately explain which cards are acceptable... E.g., you might not accept Diners Club and Discover, but do want to accept Visa, MC, and Amex. Having little icons there make that more explainable. We did it like that on our contribution form: https://contribute.publicradio.org/contribute.php

Re: Skeuocard

#152

Post by PhasmaFelis »

dualogy wrote: post #95

[Edit: original thread title was "why isn't every CC form like this?"] Because it's completely unneeded. Typical web designer wet dream. Fancy-schmancy visual design fluff, robbing screen real-estate and bandwidth for a freaking "credit card" background image, and will it still work even 2 or 5 years from now when all web dev standards have once again turned 180° and future browsers render stuff like this way-off or…

I see another issue --- with the CC now looking more real, the user also gets closer to the "physical reality" of "I'm parting with cash". Once I see my card's logo I'm instantly more hesitant. It's been shown that the more "layers" away from real physical payment a transaction is, the "easier" a customer proceeds with it.

Isn't it a good thing, if people are more responsible with their money?

I mean, yes, most web merchants would be much happier if all their customers spent the diaper bill and the mortgage payment on product, but I don't think you're supposed to say that out loud on a public forum. It's considered gauche.

Re: Skeuocard

#154

Post by robflynn »

I'll be sending you a pull request in a day or two. I work with dead, blind, hard of hearing, and visually impaired folks. I see a few places where accessibility could be improved with respect to screen readers.

Would you be open to a patch like that?

Re: Skeuocard

#155

Post by georgebonnr »

I agree with others - I love the concept. However, I think for customers who are less enthusiastic and trusting in general, having a physical representation of their card built before their eyes will make them more acutely aware of the information that they're sharing, and be nervous that they're sharing it (even if they have limited reason to be nervous). In short, it will spook average customers. Maybe for a site that sold to a technology-focused crowd it would have more success though. Just my hunch.

Re: Skeuocard

#156

Post by stephengillie »

jessedhillon wrote: post #142
kenkeiter wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for being willing to test it! This isn't something I'm making money off of, nor is it something I feel the need to ram down people's throats -- I just wanted to try something people hadn't seen before. If it works, and people like it, great! I'm glad to have helped a little. Please let me know if you run into any trouble (my Twitter and email are on the site).

One minor improvement I would make is to prefetch the backgrounds for the specific card types (Visa, MC, Amex) so that the swapping appears seamless. This is a great idea and I will totally keep it in mind for future projects. The "flip to the other side" to fill out the CVV is great. I might provide a second button/link, appearing once the CVV is completed, that says something to the effect of "valid input, next ste…

Another minor improvement (if possible) would be to load the bank's logo, when that can be determined by logo.

Great product, I'd use it if I had a shopping cart!

Re: Skeuocard

#157

Post by starmole »

Small bug report: This works very poorly (not useable) in Chrome Version 21.0.1180.90, which is the last one available on macosx 10.5. You probably want to fall back to form fields on untested browsers.

Re: Skeuocard

#158

Post by wikwocket »

Volpe wrote: post #145
timdorr wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That fancy CC form will NOT sell a single thing. It will however stop people from paying. It does nothing to convert. Exactly. This isn't a usability improvement, it's fluff. If you want to see an actual usability improvement, look at what Stripe has done with jQuery.payment: https://github.com/stripe/jquery.payment A good example is in their Checkout javascript component: https://stripe.com/docs/checkout

> Exactly. This isn't a usability improvement, it's fluff. Do you have any data that backs that up? (excluding call-to-authority and anec-data)

If you Google "checkout conversion remove field," you should see a number of articles on this, including some with A/B tests. The trend seems to be that the fewer fields shown or required, the better conversion is.

Re: Skeuocard

#159

Post by derstang »

jhalstead wrote: post #133
kenkeiter wrote: post #103

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GREAT CATCH! Thank you. I totally missed Maestro Card as a product. I'll get it added ASAP. The fallback is a good idea, too! Glad you liked it :)

Ken, have you seen this [1] Wikipedia page? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Issuer_Identification_N...

This list of BINs/IINs is not very accurate beyond the first two digits identifying card network.

Re: Skeuocard

#160

Post by Qantourisc »

Failure on copy-paste. Fix it ! :) And try to keep it in 1 box. Perfectly possible without hurting functionality: Just use css word-spacing. (And auto-add spaces where needed.)
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