Future store updates planned (backend)
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:43 pm
There is some new nonsense coming into play into very soon...
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), a new rule coming into effect on September 14, 2019 as part of PSD2 regulation in Europe, will require changes to how your European customers authenticate online payments. Card payments will require a different user experience, namely 3D Secure, in order to meet SCA requirements. Transactions that don’t follow the new authentication guidelines may be declined by your customers’ banks.
So I plan to attempt to implement these changes in very small steps over the next few weeks or months.
The first thing to do will be updating the stripe libraries, where they assure me updating will not break the current install (We shall see). I have no planed date in mind when I will do this, but I will give people a heads up now about what is going on shortly (I may try and do this next week sometime).
The worst thing that can happen is payments will fail or the script will fail with errors. Though the first step in updating the libraries, does not require any actual code changes in my store scripts, so this should not break anything. However later there will be code changes needed in the payment system scripts which I coded, so this is likely the point where things will start going wrong. I will however try and do these updates on a backup copy first... But during those tests, my main web store will still have to be taken off-line as I need to set up my account into "test mode".
I will post news here when the changes are going on and done etc, then people can expect things to break.. As mentioned, I will be doing updates and changes in very small steps. So of course step one is to update the libraries, and then I will not do any more updates until I know the store is still running correctly after those updates.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants to order things in my store, they should probably do it sometime soon, as my store may be broken in the near future
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), a new rule coming into effect on September 14, 2019 as part of PSD2 regulation in Europe, will require changes to how your European customers authenticate online payments. Card payments will require a different user experience, namely 3D Secure, in order to meet SCA requirements. Transactions that don’t follow the new authentication guidelines may be declined by your customers’ banks.
So I plan to attempt to implement these changes in very small steps over the next few weeks or months.
The first thing to do will be updating the stripe libraries, where they assure me updating will not break the current install (We shall see). I have no planed date in mind when I will do this, but I will give people a heads up now about what is going on shortly (I may try and do this next week sometime).
The worst thing that can happen is payments will fail or the script will fail with errors. Though the first step in updating the libraries, does not require any actual code changes in my store scripts, so this should not break anything. However later there will be code changes needed in the payment system scripts which I coded, so this is likely the point where things will start going wrong. I will however try and do these updates on a backup copy first... But during those tests, my main web store will still have to be taken off-line as I need to set up my account into "test mode".
I will post news here when the changes are going on and done etc, then people can expect things to break.. As mentioned, I will be doing updates and changes in very small steps. So of course step one is to update the libraries, and then I will not do any more updates until I know the store is still running correctly after those updates.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants to order things in my store, they should probably do it sometime soon, as my store may be broken in the near future