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Detailed description General information
This page contains common information about Checkout gateway software and its purpose is to bring you the idea of the software if you are not familiar with it. Detailed information about Checkout gateway is listed in the documentation and on the features page.
Many useful information can be found at our FAQ pages.
Checkout gateway software was design to setup internal payment gateway for online merchants and centralize all payment transactions, i.e. you can handle all payments in one place. This software is more than really handy solution if you:
Have several online businesses running on several websites, f. e. several online stores.
Want to take payments from your customers using several payment methods,f. e. you want let your customers pay using VISA and MasterCard, PayPal, MoneyBookers and E-Gold.
Checkout gateway interfaces with your websites via hidden from your customers XML HTTP requests. All payment data is generated on Checkout gateway side and all you need is to parse XML and show your customers applicable information.
This Technical Example of Checkout gateway usage will help you get more clear with its technology. The scheme below show principals of the Checkout gateway software work:
It is important to understand, that:
Checkout gateway interfaces with your websites using the same XML protocol, which is independent form protocols of payments systems, which Checkout gateway software is connected to. You don't need to have any knowledge about how Checkout gateway works with PayPal, MoneyBookers and so on - we have already implemented this protocols and supply you with ready-to-go solution. All you need is to integrate your websites with installed Checkout gateway software and you will get your websites connected to many payment systems! Of cause you need to open account in every payment system you want to use and enter settings in Checkout gateway control panel.
Checkout gateway give you very flexible abilities to manage all payments from the single management source. You can enable or disable any payment method on all or on a part of your websites by click of mouse!
From the point of view of your customers your website is connected to payment systems directly, i. e. they don't know that you use internal payment gateway. The scheme below shows the process of payment:
Customer will be redirected to the payment system heshe selected directly from the merchant website. No redirects to internal gateway are made! All data between Checkout gateway software and merchant store transfers using hidden XML HTTP requests.
This document describes the algorithm of XML requests exchanges between merchant website and the Checkout gateway software. What the Checkout gateway software can be used for?
Several scenarios of the Checkout gateway software are listed below:
1. You are running several online businesses, f. e. several online stores and want all money
transactions be well organized and monitored from the one place. The common problem of merchants, who have several websites is that every website has its own transactions
processing software and directly connected to payment systems. This situation is illustrated below: Next problems occur when you use this model:
If you want to setup new payment method - you need to do the same job on every of your websites, instead of setup it in one place if you use internal payment gateway based on Checkout gateway software.
You need to make many administration job because all payment information is distributed between several merchant points.
This system is hard to expand on new merchant websites.
There is no central unit, where you can monitor all transactions.
Using Checkout gateway software you will have no any problems listed above.
2. You have one e-commerce website, trading products or services and want to let your customers pay using many different payment systems, f. e. VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, MoneyBookers and etc.
Checkout gateway software already integrated with many popular payment systems,
once you integrate your website with Checkout gateway software, you will get it connected to all of them. All you need is to open account in every payment system you want to use. 3. You are a software developer and need to integrate new online store or an e-commerce website with several payment systems. You don't want to spend much time implementing third party payment systems protocols.
Safe many hours using ready-to-go payment gateway platform. Use handy XML
interface for integration of your e-commerce solutions with payment systems instead of using different data transfer protocols. Who Checkout gateway customers are?
The target groups of Checkout gateway software users are listed below:
Online merchants, who have several e-commerce websites or use several payment methods to accept money from their customers.
Software developers, who wants to safe many hours on job, that already done by the Checkout gateway developers. Instead of integration of your e-commerce applications with third-party payment systems you can purchase Checkout gateway and get integrated with many payment systems!
Detailed information about Checkout gateway software can be found using links below:
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