Payment Gateway
A payment gateway is a separate service and acts as an intermediary between the merchants’ shopping cart and all the financial networks involved with the transaction, including the customers’ credit card issuer and your merchant account. It checks for validity, encrypts transaction details, ensures they are sent to the correct destination and then decrypts the responses which are sent back to the shopping cart. A payment gateway can be thought of as a digital equivalent to a credit card processing terminal.
A Payment Gateway is an e-commerce service that authorizes payments for e-businesses and online retailers.
This is a seamless process and your customer does not directly interact with the gateway; as data is forwarded to the gateway via your shopping cart and a secure (SSL) connection. The shopping cart is configured via plugins to send information in a format that is acceptable to the particular gateway.
How payment gateways work
Payment gateways encrypt information handled through SSL(Secure Socket Layer). This prevents
opportunity for fraud, and adds security to the transaction process. Gateways communicate with a variety of entities, including:
• The customer
• The merchant (through their website)
• Credit Card companies (by verifying information)
• Internet Merchant accounts that relay order information from the gateway to the merchant’s bank account
Benefits of payment gateway
Benefits of having a payment gateway are: t
1 Security:
Gateways keep customers credit card data behind firewalls so that the merchant doesn’t have to worry about someone “hacking in” to their system.
2 Encryption:
Gateways use SSL encryption to prevent message tampering while the credit card information is being transmitted over the Internet. EMS provides the most secure encryption technology.
3 Back-up redundancy:
Gateways have a backup system in place to ensure that merchants can continue processing in the event of an emergency.
4 Up-to-date technology:
Gateways are services that are constantly upgraded to be up to date with the latest technology. And, because the gateways are not on merchants' computers, there is no need for the merchants to upgrade their hardware. Gateways save the cost of an additional phone line that would be needed in a dial application.
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