A Payment Gateway is essentially the part of a website that you enter your payment details (usually credit / debit card), which are then processed and the money at some point credited to your account. The payment gateway itself is owned by the company you choose to process your customers payments. Your website links to this gateway, and then after processing the payment the payment gateway will re-direct back to your website, in most cases providing some result on the success of the transaction.

There are a number of different types of payment gateway, but the two most common are the traditional merchant based gateways - such as WorldPay and the newer 'electronic money' based systems such as PayPal .The main difference between the two is that with the electronic money versions, account holders can send payments to each other securely via e-mail.

There are other Payment gateways available, and some will have an impact upon where your website is hosted since they require certain files to be registered on the web server to work. For security reasons, many website hosts will not allow the registration of files on their servers, and so different wen hosting may need to be sort. In any case, if you do have a different Payment Gateway provider in mind - please contact us  to discuss your needs

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