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How Internet Transactions Work
- The consumer places an order.
The customer places an order at the Merchant Internet
storefront, using his or her payment method of choice.
- The transaction is processed in real-time.
Our payment gateway, provides secure,
real-time connectivity from your storefront to the payment gateway platform.
It securely routes the transaction through the financial network to the
appropriate banks, ensuring that customers are authorized to make their purchase.
This gateway uses a client/server architecture for performing transaction
processing. The client is installed on your merchant site and is integrated with
your e-commerce application. The client may also be pre-integrated with shopping
cart solutions and store management systems. For transaction authorization, our
gateway client software establishes a secure link with the its processing server
over the Internet using an SSL connection, and transmits the encrypted transaction
request. The processing server, which is a multi-threaded processing environment,
receives the request and transmits it to the appropriate financial processing network.
- The transaction is approved or denied.
When the authorization response is received from the
financial network, the response is returned via the same session to the client on
your site. The client completes the transaction session by transparently sending a
transaction receipt acknowledgment to the server before disconnecting the session.
- The transaction is confirmed.
The gateway confirms that the transaction has been securely
routed and processed. As proof of a securely processed transaction, both the
customer and the merchant receive a confirmation number via email or web browser.
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