Ecommerce Checkout Options

Payment Gateway Integration is often the checkout method of choice for online etailers. This often works well for a number of reasons. You dont have to worry about handling actual credit card numbers, and you receive orders in the knowledge that the credit card payment has cleared. On your customers side, the customer has the relative peace of mind in the knowledge that their details are being input into a well known and established online payment gateway be it RBS Worldpay, Sagepay (previously Protx), Barclays or Paypal.  

However payment gateways are not the only solution. For example, you can securely capture credit card details on your own site and process these offline. This can be done by a variety of encryption methods such as using server side PGP encryption. This saves you some monthly overheads and possible commissions to payment gateways.

Alternatively, your customers may be known to you, and you can allow them to checkout "on account" for example. This allows you to take the order through the web, and settle the payment by other means offline. This method is usually especially suited to B2B ecommerce web sites where your site is selling to other trade businesses.

Finally, we can offer you any combination of the above, where checkout method is determined by customer type, or can be chosen by the customer. Its up to you, under your control, and not pre-determined by the software!

Contact us to discuss further how our flexible and listening approach could benefit your business.