Hertz

Hertz Program

Credit card verification software.

Introduction

Hertz is a program that provides automatic over the phone credit card verification. Once the credit line is approved, cellular phone device in the Hertz rent car is enabled for normal use.

Using the IVR functionality, the callers will be able to:

• Answer a call and play greeting message.
• Request and receive credit card number.
• Request and receive expiration date.
• Credit card information is sent to another process for verification using IPC.
• Provide for retries in case the credit card information entered is not correct.
• Instruct user and take them through steps needed to activate the cellular phone.

Required list of VOX files

Following vox files are required for the application.

   abort.vox     badgen.vox    five.vox      one.vox       six.vox       two.vox
   approved.vox  eight.vox     four.vox      reactcnf.vox  test.vox      zero.vox
   badcc.vox     entrcc.vox    intro.vox     reactive.vox  thankyou.vox
   badexpr.vox   entrexpr.vox  nine.vox      seven.vox     three.vox

Sample run script

#!/bin/sh
#

./hertz.exe  -p 1 -T PP_,ffff -T VM_,ffff -T G_,ffff

Origin

Demonstration program for AT&T Wireless.

Main Features

        Answer a call and play greeting message.
        Request and receive credit card number.
        Request and receive expiration date.
        Credit card information is sent to another process for verification using IPC.
        Provide for retries in case the credit card information entered is not correct.
        Instruct user and take them through steps needed to activate the cellular phone.

Status

The IVR portion of the code is ported to PC. The Credit verification interface through IPC is not currently ported to PC.

External processes

IPC services are needed.