Payment gateway, in simple words, is a virtual window
between a customer and merchant, in which customers pays the soft cash to
merchant for its goods and services by credit cards, debit cards and net
banking. In the present scenario of
e-commerce world, it is reliability provider for both customers and as well
as merchants.
How it works? It is a quite a complex technical thing, very
long algorithm and hard to be understand but ease to use. For merchants payment
gateway is increasing serviceability to their customers by cashless shopping. this blog is about to discuss using a payment
gateway for merchants. The things to be keeping in mind.
Security
It is main thing to be ensure before sign up or
registering a payment gateway for your business. In the payment a customer has share its all payment
details they should be safe it is also merchant’s responsibility. Payment
gateway should follows the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards.
Technical Capability
It is needed to be know how they process payments. The
process payments is vital hence some payment gateways entertains the card
information in a secure packet known as iframe which is 128 bit SSL secured and
delivered the information to the related banks directly and some gateways take
customers to their servers to save their details for future transactions. It is
informative thing a merchant should be aware. There are some more questions and
queries that should be cleared alike- types of cards accepted by payment gateway,
reports and detailed information could be given or not, currency conversion
issues etc.
Look and Feel
The interface of gateway is should be matched with
merchant’s web present interface. It is thing that ensures merchants presence
at the payment gateway. The look and feel of the web page is matters to
merchant’s relationship with the customers.
Price
The last thing, it matters to the merchant. The aspects of pricing
are vary according to the payment gateway like transaction fee, implementation
cost, maintenance.
Last but not the least the payment gateway chosen by you is
able to fly high as you.
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