E-Commerce Website with Integrated Payment Gateway

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 05:21:05 +0100

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.

Payment Gateway is a part of an e-commerce service that empowers the payment mode for electronic-business. Payment Gateway encrypts confidential information that transfers in a safe path between a customer and the respective merchant. A payment gateway holds a soul of any e-commerce application.

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. As number of online sellers is growing day by day, you should not waste time in devising new ways to augment your sales. Ask a web development company for payment integration on your website. It is very much similar to POS as seen in physical shops. Today, this service is provided by various banks like Citibank etc.

How Paypal Payment Gateway Integration works:

Your website >> Your checkout page >> Paypal.com >> Your payment Success/Cancel page

This is the basic architecture of Paypal payment processing. It's really easy to integrate Paypal as your online payment processor. You need to know database driven dynamic web page scripting using any server side scripting language. Paypal accepts a set of variables to process a payment, and after payment completion, it returns another set of variables (including the existing one) to your website. Now your checkout page should be used to pass those variables to paypal.com. This can be done using an html form. The form should post a set of specific variables to paypal.com. Those variable contains information, like total payable amount, sold item name, item number, paypal email of the payee, payment success page url, payment cancel page url and lot more. Moreover, for good practice, the checkout page should start a session (or set a cookie) which contains a secret string. Finally after the payment, paypal.com returns the visitor to payment cancel page or payment success page, depending on the status of the payment. So, your payment success/cancel page should be dynamic. The payment success page will verify the session (or cookie) created by checkout page and will confirm, if this page is accessed after a successful payment, or directly. Paypal.com has returned a set of variables using post/get method to this success page. So this page will now verify if the payment status is completed and the received amount is same as the charged amount or not. If yes, the success page will alter the database or send some email notification to concerned ids. And finally it'll destroy all the sessions created by checkout page. The cancel page can alter database (like: update orders set status='Due' where orders.order_id #). This page will similarly destroy all the sessions created by checkout page.

Payment gateway integration saves lot of time and effort spent while standing in queues for making payment. An individual can do online payment anytime and from anywhere. The things he need is an internet connection, computer, and the credit card. Another advantage is that automatic tax calculation is done even before making the transaction. Payment gateway integration is an essential part of your web marketing strategy and must be taken into consideration while devising new ways to boost up your sales.

Arth Infosoft Pvt.Ltd.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. ArthInfosoft is one of the most reliable firms for Payment gateway services in India that provide technical solutions to credit card transactions when a customer makes an online shopping and do the payment. These payment gateways are tied with reputed banks and provide code to payment processors. We provide all payment integration services that are important from this aspect of service. 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.

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E-Commerce Website with Integrated Payment Gateway