Abbreviations and terms abound when you’re dealing with cloud computing and payment processing. When people talk about cloud-computing platform, they often have different purposes in mind. This means that the entire IT industry is transforming from a physical towards a virtual world. With a brief introduction, you can understand cloud computing terms like DevOps, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and more. What Is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is ... Read more
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Creating Your Own Payment Gateway: 3 Complexities You Must Overcome
Most companies rely on third-party vendors to provide their payment gateway software. But isn’t it possible for a company to have its own payment gateway? Setting up your own payment gateway is a bit like reinventing the wheel since robust and full-featured solutions are available. However, it’s possible to build your own platform if you have time and resources. If you have a ... Read more
Diagram on How Processing of Bank Account Transfers work
Bank account transfers are widely used by businesses all around the globe. But the process of transferring money between bank accounts differs depending on the country. And if you want to add this functionality to your payment gateway you need to be aware of the peculiarities of the one or two-phase systems for professing of bank account transfers. The diagram below describes step by step ... Read more
Commercial Open-Source Payment Gateway
A commercial open source payment gateway has many benefits over proprietary commercial software or building your own payment solution. Creating a fully functional payment gateway can be a real challenge when you try to build something of your own and go it alone, but choosing open source means choosing a world of assurances and support. Open source payment gateways feature frequent updates based on your ... Read more
5 Tips For Web-Based Merchants Choosing A Payment Gateway
Web-based merchants considering their payment gateway choices must keep several things in mind to make the best possible decision. It’s important to keep fees, ease of integration, customer awareness, brandability and funding speed in mind when choosing the best payment gateway for your business. Have you considered all the variables? How to chooce right Payment Gateway? Practically all web-based merchants use third-party payment gateways, but ... Read more
How to Choose the most reliable Payment Gateway
Questions To Consider When Choosing A Payment Gateway One of the most frequently asked question is how to choose a payment gateway which will meet the specific requirements of your business from the great amount of the available ones. There are a lot of things which you need to analyze carefully in order to make the right choice, for instance, payment types supported, costs, the ... Read more
Integrated And Semi-integrated Solutions Diagram
What's the difference between Integrated And Semi-integrated Solutions? The key difference between integrated and semi-integrated payment terminal solutions is as follows. In an integrated payment terminal solution cardholder data is transmitted from the point of card entry (i.e. payment terminal) to the point-of-sale (POS) application, which then passes it to the payment gateway. In a semi-integrated solution (offered, among other providers, by UniPay Gateway ... Read more