Payment Gateway – Travel and Tourism Businesses

Travel and tourism businesses have very specific needs when it comes to choice of a payment gateway. The payment gateway needs to be secure and reliable first and foremost and as a result of the 24/7 international nature of the travel and tourism industry, it is imperative that travel and tourism clients can pay at any time of the day or night.

Payment Gateway Services in Africa

Reporting on things impacting on merchants and payment gateways, a recent report by Frost and Sullivan says that over the past two years, broadband market growth exceeds 30% and broadband revenues will increase more than 5 times by 2015. So get yourself a merchant facility and a payment gateway and hitch an ecommerce ride!

Payment Gateway News

Here are some interesting ecommerce news snippets most of which are from Finextra relevant to merchants looking for a payment gateway for their online credit card processing . . .

Credit Card Processing – Call Centres

Finextra reports that UK call centres are putting customer credit card details at risk by storing credit card details for credit card processing at a later date in contravention of PCI credit card storage requirements. Secure credit card processing is an imperative for credit card merchants.

PayBill – The easiest way to accept online credit card payments

Many businesses want to accept online credit card payments into their merchant accounts however the cost of developing a website and integrating a credit card payment processing system proves to be too much for some. To allow as many merchants to accept online credit card payments as possible, we have developed the PayBill service. This service requires no integration or development and offers a reliable, user friendly and secure way to accept credit card payments.

Payment Gateway – Security

Payment gateway is described by Wikipedia as “an e-commerce application service provider service that authorizes payments for e-businesses, online retailers, bricks and clicks, or traditional brick and mortar”. In my opinion, a payment gateway is simply a switch that facilitates payment online by cardholders to merchants.

PayProtector – Risk Analysis Services

As an online payment gateway for merchants in the airline, tourism and travel, e-commerce and online gaming industries (amongst others); PayGate is focused on combating online credit card fraud and providing the most secure way of accepting credit cards online. Although credit card fraud has been identified as a major concern for all merchants accepting credit cards online – particularly those accepting international credit card transactions – the risk of receiving fraudulent transactions can be reduced to negligible levels by using online fraud prevention measures.

How a Payment Gateway Works

As a secure payment processor offering secure credit card payment processing services in South Africa, PayGate connects your website or call centre directly to your internet merchant account at your bank. Therefore you as the merchant can accept credit card payments without having to connect to the bank yourself.

Magazine Subscription and Mail Order Recurring Billing Credit Card Processing To a Merchant Account

Processing credit cards for magazine subscriptions on a recurring billing method like debit order by credit card to a merchant account using a mail order merchant facility is easy these days using PaySubs, PayBatch and/or PayBill from PayGate payment gateway.

Choosing a 2010 Hotel Reservation Software, Booking and Payment System, and a Compatible Payment Gateway for Credit Card Processing for your B&B, Hotel or Guesthouse

With 2010 on the horizon, hotel establishments need to look more closely at hotel reservation software and hotel booking systems, whether they have a B&B, boutique hotel, guesthouse or holiday cottages which are available for visitors to the soccer. Ensuring that hospitality establishments can accept credit cards on the internet using a payment gateway for credit card processing is essential for booking success.