the.com/payment gateway
the bouncer between your credit card and the internet's endless capacity for fraud.
means software that securely transmits payment data between a customer, a merchant, and the banks, then says yes or no in about two seconds.
from emerged in the mid-1990s alongside ecommerce itself, when early sites needed a digital equivalent of the card swipe machine to move transaction data safely across an untrusted internet.
encryption standardpci dss compliance is mandatory, not optional
decision speedauthorization typically happens in under 2 seconds
hidden layermost shoppers never see the gateway at all