Payment Gateway – An Integral Part Of Ecommerce

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If you are going to accept credit card and electronic check online for your business you need a payment gateway. This article will explain what you need for payment gateway integration, and popular payment gateway providers.

A payment gateway is a remotely hosted software application that enables merchants to accept credit card and electronic check payments directly from their website. Payment gateway is integral part of shopping cart in any ecommerce website, without payment gateway integration no commercial payments can be made or received.

Why is Payment Gateway needed?

Payment Gateway holds the essence of any e-commerce site. One cannot think of making or receiving on-line payments without a Payment Gateway. Payment Gateway basically refers to an e-commerce service that authorizes payments for e-businesses & online retailers.

It, in a way, represents a physical POS (Point-of-sale) terminal located in most retail outlets. Payment gateways encrypt sensitive information, such as credit card numbers to ensure that information passes securely between the customer and the merchant.

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... present time ecommerce and online shopping is increasing at phenomenal rate in fact at exponential rates. That's why there is a need that your website (or your web store) should be integrated via payment gateway with the merchant account. The theme is to get the payment before you ship. We can do payment gateway integration with shopping cart in order to enable customers to easily process credit cards on the websites.

Ecommerce websites can be designed using various prevailing programming languages and development of shopping cart is part of these websites. For making good shopping cart, integration of secure payment gateway is very essential for the success of ecommerce website.

There are numerous advantages of payment gateway integration.

Customers can shop online in a virtual environment
You can do business virtually 24x7
Money is automatically transferred to your merchant account
Security and peace of mind with credit card transactions
Fast, easy, and secure online processing
Provides vast and easy access to the global market
Cost effective, flexible integration, swift transaction processing.

eSparkInfo is experienced in providing the best integration services with popular payment gateways that includes:

PayPal
Authorize.net
Blue Pay
First Data
iBill
VeriSign Pay flow
Link Point
Money Bookers
ViaKlix
2Checkout
WorldPay
and much more….

We can help you integrate your ecommerce website with a payment gateway convenient to you. Get in touch with us right away to know how we can help you. We also offer a wide range of ecommerce solutions to suit your ecommerce needs. Please contact us today to know how we could assist you in your ecommerce needs.

Nitesh ahir is CEO of web development company esparkinfo solution in India. He is focusing IT services to provide professional eCommerce web development services & more.