Payment Gateway – An Integral part of eCommerce

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. The payment gateway is an integral part of the shopping cart in an e-commerce 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 online 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.

In the present time, e-commerce and online shopping is increasing at a 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 the shopping cart in order to enable customers to easily process credit cards on the websites.

E-commerce 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 e-commerce 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 e-commerce 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.

Harikrishna Kundariya is CEO of website development company esparkinfo solution in India. He is focusing IT services to provide professional HubSpot COS Development services & more.