On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
If you have a business e.g. selling books or train tickets or some such then you might decide it's better to have a simpler more robust setup from the point of view of providing continuous service to end-customers. In the (hopefully rare) event of a crash irreparably losing some transactions apologise to your customers and recompense them generously.
Unfortunately you probably no longer know who to apologize to, what for, or how much to compensate them!
I guess when you reconcile your cc credits from the cc company recorded in their system to the sales in your recovered system, you will have evidence of the discrepancies.
Now I can't use an ecommerce without pondering all the ways something can go wrong, and how to minimize/address them.