How to add payment gateway in eCommerce website

Jul 11, 2012, by admin

Payment gateway addition into e-commerce websites is a fine method of accepting payment for products or services offered by online shopping. This make sure that an online business owner stays completely harass free for handling payment by customers.

Steps

1.Understand what a payment gateway is. A Payment Gateway is basically an application which allows the user to process all his transactions online or over the internet.

If you want to sell your services or products via internet or a website, you need to have a payment gateway included on your website to assist easy payment transfer between customers and the business.

Apart from this, the payment gateway should also secure the financial institution which pays on behalf of the customer and the financial institution which is accepting payment on behalf of the seller.

This software acts just as a link between the internet and your e-commerce website.

2.Set up a payment gateway if you want to take your website to the next level and receive more clients. If you have a business web host, you may already have a payment gateway access; otherwise you may need to ask your web host for this service or locate some other modes to integrate this into your site.

3.Get what you need for the inclusion of payment gateway. The process of payment gateway integration requires some effort. This is one of the software applications that needs to be stored on the user’s server. It means that a user may require a little more disk space and bandwidth.

Check all the requirements of the software to make sure that your present hosting package can manage the development in technical requirements.

4.Make sure that the payment gateway is well-matched with all programming languages that are used on e-commerce sites. Check if you are making use of one of the following programming languages:

   Visual Basic.Net

    PHP

    Perl/CGI

    ASP.Net or ASP