Secure Payments with Protx and ThawteTechnology to Allow Your Customers to Shop with Confidence Bluepark's ecommerce software enables your customers to make secure credit card payments. In order to offer this facility, you may decide to obtain a merchant account from any bank of your choice and sign up with a 3rd party payment processor. We highly recommend the excellent service provided by the UK company Protx, fully supporting both their VSP Server and VSP Direct solutions, together with 3D Secure payments including Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode. VSP Server redirects the customer to a secure Protx page, protected by their own SSL certificate, before any credit card details are requested. Once the payment has been processed, the customer is returned to your site along with the corresponding message relating to the status of the order. The Protx VSP Server pages can be customised in order to better compliment the look and feel of your site. [ APPLY | SETUP ] VSP Direct allows you to receive the customer's credit card details on your own site, protected by your own SSL certificate. At no time will the customer be redirected from your site. However, using Protx VSP Direct will incur the additional cost associated with an SSL certificate for your domain name. [ APPLY | SETUP ]  It should be noted that many banks require a minimum of 6-12 months of audited trading history in order to grant a merchant account. For relatively new or start-up businesses, PayPal offers a combined merchant account and payment solution. Website Payments Pro allows you to receive the customer's credit card details on your own site, protected by your own SSL certificate. In addition, the established Website Payments Standard offers a free and effective payment solution for online retailers.       Supported Payment Processors:
Thawte SSL Certificates and Data Encryption Should you decide that you would prefer to receive credit card payments on your own site, you will need to guarantee the security of your customers' payment details. An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate is employed for this purpose, encrypting all data sent to and from the Web server. Customers become aware that they are using a secure Web site by the presence of 'https' in the Address Bar and a padlock icon in the Status Bar. Clicking on the padlock enables the customer to view and confirm the authenticity of the certificate. Not all SSL certificates are equal. There are varying rates of encryption, 256-bit being the current standard. Also, not all SSL certificates are Trusted. A specific selection of Certification Authorities are registered as Trusted in browsers such as Internet Explorer, and certificates which do not meet this standard generate a very obvious warning message in the browser window. Your customers will be unlikely to put their trust in your business if you cannot guarantee the security of their transactions. We are proud to offer the leading Thawte brand of SSL certificates with 256-bit encryption. Thawte, a company owned by Verisign, became the first Certification Authority to sell public SSL certificates a year after they launched in 1995. Thawte certificates are trusted in virtually ALL Internet browsers and are available in 1-year or 2-year varieties. [ ORDER ] |
