The upgrade is now complete, more info here:
The balloon race software was built in 2008 when ASP was “a thing”. Over the years PHP has been the go to platform and ASP has been left behind and is now dated. In August 2021 balloonrace.com is being completely rewritten to go live in September. The software and server will change from ASP to PHP.
Currently with ASP we lose payment information when the user closes the browser, navigates to other pages or restarts their device. The payment status is only held on 1 page rather than across the site (like a shopping cart).
Quote from the site developer:
“What we need to do is have a sort of “hidden shopping cart logic” – store all payment related information into a perpetual session – then no matter what you do and on what page you land/browse around as a client … you will be able to pay (or go back to payment) without any issues.
This is one of the advantages of PHP… besides many others.
We could retain the payment information with ease even after the user closes his browser, navigates to other pages or restarts the device…
At this point in time … we only have the payment information on 1 single page … and that page is the registration confirmation.
(we lose the information if the page is switched, browser is closed or device is restarted)”