This website is used by Verisign to send us receipt information from order processing. That means that during order processing Verisign calls a script called http://www.edigest.org/~edigest/cgi-bin/verireceipt.pl to report the results of order processing.

One technique to reduce email addresses (and exposure to spam) is to not activate email for all websites. This means that some of our websites will not receive email directly.

So how do customers contact us when replying to an order?
So, what is the return address on orders being processed on a website which does not have direct email?

The answer to the above questions is: gatewayorders.com.

We can use gatewayorders.com as a email processing website for the orders. It is already true that when people look on their credit card statements they will see Gateways listed as the company. So gatewayorders.com is a logical (i.e. not too jarring) email address to see.

Why not use gatewaysbooksandtapes.com for the return address. Well, we can put some nice text on gatewayorders.com that explains that it does order processing for the following (full list of cart sites here) websites. We can make it look acceptable. The gateways books and tapes website is designed to sell books -- not designed to calm the disquiet of credit card customers.

The "receipt" is a bit of information sent back to us from verisign about the success (or lack of success) of a transaction.

This gives us a backup of all shopping cart receipts even if the emails don't arrive.

Because of how the script works only the last copy of the receipt is saved. There can be multiple copies of a receipt if someone tries to use a card over and over again. In this case only the last attempt will be saved. That is because each saves is over the top of the previous save.

The receipts are saves with the invoice.receipt

For example: 1170017.receipt