kount-sample-web-app

Simple e-commerce site that integrates Kount Services

This basic web application is a simplified representation of a standard customer purchase process including:

• shopping cart review
• customer data verification
• transaction result

The web application integrates a few of the Kount Fraud Detection services -- the Kount Data Collector, Kount Risk Inquiry Service (RIS) and Kount Access PHP API.

Kount Data Collector

The Kount Data Collector is a service used to gather information for the customer provided by the device they use. The collected data includes: standard device fingerprints, IP address, Internet Service Provider, geo-location based on the customer's IP address and many more. The information obtained by the Data Collector service is stored for subsequent usage by Kount's fraud detection algorithms.

Kount Ris Inquiry service

This tool can make automated decisions for the level of fraud-likeliness of customer purchases. It uses various parameters:

• purchase details -- items and item descriptions, prices, item quantities, etc.
• customer details -- customer provided data for name, e-mail address, billing and shipping address, customer age and gender, etc.
• information collected by the Kount Data Collector

Kount Access PHP

This library allows you to connect to the Kount Access API services and get information back from your login transactions.

Using Kount's PHP SDK

There are two ways to integrate this web application with Kount's sdk:

• Composer installation
  To use installation with composer, it is required to run a single command in the root of the web application.

  $ composer install

  This will install a version of Kount's PHP SDK, currently it's working with the latest(6.5.2, https://github.com/Kount/kount-ris-php-sdk/releases)

• Direct Download
  To use installation with direct download, you need to download the latest version(6.5.2, from Downloads: https://github.com/Kount/kount-ris-php-sdk/releases) into a folder and place it in the root of the web application. You will also need to change a line in the response.php file.

  //Composer Installation
  include('/./vendor/autoload.php');
  
     to
     
  //Direct Download   
  include('./Folder-containing-PHP-SDK/src/autoload.php');   

You will also need to add a bit of configuration, so that everything runs smoothly.

Once you have a merchantId and url, you must provide them for the kount access and ris sdks, which the demo uses.

• The quickest way to configure the demo application is to set the merchant id and url in the config.ini file in the root directory of the project. The config.ini is a custom settings file which makes adding configurations
  easier and avoids the hassle of manually re-adding the merchant id and url, everytime there are updates with the
  other kount products.

• You can still use the src/settings.ini file but you'll have to re-configure it every time there is an update with kount's ris php sdk and kount access sdk versions.
  If you've used composer installation the src folder is located in:

  $ cd path-to-web-app/vendor/kount/kount-ris-php-sdk/src/settings.ini

  If you've used the direct download option the src folder is located in:

  $ cd path-to-web-app/Folder-containing-PHP-SDK/src/settings.ini