E-Commerce system integration

[charon]

I'm here would like to know what are the common practise for the E-Commerce site to "integrate"
Their internal system with the payment gateway/financial institution?? Why I raise the question is because
all the transaction onkine must be "Updated" into our internal system (merchant system) for their internal used (finance, stock control) righ??

[MotherNatrsSon]

The payment gateway I use integrates with my site how I choose. There are several differsnt options from most payment gateways. PHP, ASP, MySQL, and cgi/perl....

MNS

[charon]

You mean most of the Payment Gateway company do offer these kind of services??? System Integration??

[MotherNatrsSon]

They have these choices for integration yes. You have to interate it yourself as far as the coding etc. goes for most. Some I have seen have a very simplified way of adding their shopping cart to your site and all the transactions are then processed at their site.

I usr this payment gateway http://www.authorizenet.com/ They have various integration methods available and it depends on which you choose. All integration must be done yourself or you have to hire someone (ie; a recommended shopping cart service or purchase the shopping cart software and install it yourself if you think you are good enough at coding in whatever platform you choose).

I am not that good at coding so I went with the "simplest" way to integrate which for them is cgi/perl scripts. They give you stripped down scripts which you or someone you hire must adapt to your site.

If you do a search in google for credit card gateway or shopping cart systems you can find many out there.

MNS

[Shift4Sms]

Originally posted by MotherNatrsSon
The payment gateway I use integrates with my site how I choose. There are several differsnt options from most payment gateways. PHP, ASP, MySQL, and cgi/perl.... Sorry, I'm not positive about what you are asking. Are you asking how do web sites integrate to the credit card gateways and eventually to your bank account or are you asking if all your systems (virtual/web, face-to-face/POS, etc.) can be integrated to a common credit card gateway?

If you're asking simply about web integration, there are several gateways: $$$ ON THE NET (http://www.shift4.com/default.cfm?page=otn.cfm), Verisign, Authorizenet. These solutions require your own merchant account. You also have P2P solutions: Paypal, 2CheckOut (ick & ick), etc.

If you're asking about a common gateway for all your systems, web and face-to-face, I'm only aware of one gateway that fully supports ecommerce transactions and swiped transactions: $$$ ON THE NET (http://www.shift4.com/default.cfm?page=otn.cfm)

Hope that helps.