- API For Selling Shippables

Ecommerce Solution - API for selling shippable products online - US based merchants ONLY.

Payment Online's Application Programming Interface (API) for selling shippable products is one of the most affordable, flexible, and feature-rich ecommerce solutions available to organizations that already have a back-end database and secure Internet Servers for hosting.

This solution offer tremendous flexibility and programmable capabilities for almost any technical implementation you can imagine.

Using this solution, you can seamlessly connect your existing ecommerce/database systems to Payment Online's Transaction Processing and Payment Gateway servers.

Ecommerce Solution - API for selling shippable products

The ecommerce solution described below is ideal for businesses or corporations that wish to sell shippable goods to online shoppers. The flexibility and seamless integration of this solution makes it one of the most powerful in industry for companies with technical departments and programmers.

Payment Online's API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution is a completely integrated and easy-to-deploy ecommerce solution - that is, the secure credit card processing servers, Internet merchant account, payment gateway to banking network connections, and easy-to-use online management tools are ready-integrated for you. Hence integration with your back-end database and Internet servers hosting your site is much, much easier.

If you have an existing back-end database software/server for your order processing or customer management, and you already have a secure SSL Internet server (or hosting), then may be what you need is to directly connect to the Payment Online processing servers through the Payment Online API direct connect using the https POST method (or server-script method).

1. Description - API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution.

2. Sample Sites - API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution.

3. Features List - API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution.

4. PRICING - API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution.

Your do not need to download and install any software on your PC and you do not need to go to multiple companies for different components of your ecommerce such as real-time credit card processing, payment gateway connections, security software systems, etc.

Other eCommerce Solutions:

If you do not have your own back-end database and do not have Internet Servers with SSL (or hosting), then you may use the eCom Business Pack (with shopping cart software) to easily build a "buy button" for your storefront through our easy-to-use online management tools. Once the buy button has been built, then you simply copy and paste the buy button html code (or hyperlink) into your Web site next to your product description. CLICK HERE for more information.

For clients that require custom programming and development, we offer some of the most experienced teams of ecommerce platform developers that have years of experience developing custom ecommerce solutions and custom programming for the ecommerce industry. CLICK HERE for more information on how you can speak with a technical manager to discuss your requirements and analyze the technical issues on developing a custom shippable-products ecommerce solution.

1. Description - API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution.

This ecommerce solution is ideal for businesses or corporations that wish to sell shippable goods to online shoppers.

If you have an existing back-end database or an HTML Order Page for your order processing and customer management, may be even a shopping cart software, and you may already have a secure Internet server (secure ecommerce hosting), then all you need is to directly connect to the Payment Online processing servers through direct connect https POST method (or server-script).

You directly connect through your own order pages or scripts. The API offers direct connection methods that can be used for connecting via simple html order pages, or for integrating into software or more complicated back end systems.

The process is straightforward. On your Internet servers (where your web site and order page is hosted), orders are placed by your customers. The customer order information is stored by your back-end database solutions that you have already implemented. The transaction information (credit card type, name, number, date of expiry, total amount, etc.) is POSTed (or server-script submitted) securely to Payment Online transaction processing servers. Our servers will then process the transaction through the banking networks and proceeds from sales are deposited to your business bank account within a couple of days.

At the most basic level, API is used by constructing an HTML form, which does a POST to https://secure.paymentonline.com/cgi-bin/security-audit/transaction.cgi (Please only use the secure URL provided to you at the time of setup of your account - and not the one shown above). In the HTML form, there will be a number of fields that give the Transaction Server the information needed to process the transaction through the banking networks. Some fields are required, and some will be optional depending on what options you wish to implement.

Depending on what result is expected from the transaction, the payment gateway will send back a response, which indicates whether the transaction was approved or declined. The API ecommerce solution provides a number of options for formatting the response, depending on what your exact needs are.

In contrast to most other transaction servers and payment gateways, the Payment Online system tracks the individual items in the order. When you look up a transaction in the Online Order Management tool that you receive with your ecommerce service, you will see all the items that were ordered and the cost for each item.

There are many reason why a company that already has the back-end servers and the technical staffing would use Payment Online transaction processing servers. Firstly, there is no need for you to store and retain credit card numbers of your customers and add fiduciary responsibility to your operation. There is also the fact that developing an transaction processing platform is no easy task and requires experience and know-how. Even with experience and knowledgeable technical staff, it takes years to develop a comprehensive, reliable, secure, fully functional feature-set, tested, and proven transaction processing platform with integrated payment gateway and protocol exchange servers.

Of course, the main reason for using Payment Online API connection to the Payment Online transaction processing servers is the unmatched functionality and feature-set for a platform of its type. Which receives constant addition of features and functionality to remain years ahead of competition.

2. Sample Sites - API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution.

Here you can see some client sites that give you a flavor of how the API ecommerce solution can be implemented. Your Payment Online Sales Professional can assist you with additional questions - see contact information below.

One of the most powerful features of the API ecommerce solution is the seamless ability to integrate your web site with Payment Online Transaction, Security, and Payment Gateway Servers. This allows you to keep the look and feel of your site - without leaving your site to go to a software module hosted elsewhere.

Payment Online technical developers have been building ecommerce solutions since 1996 and our company was one of the very first software houses that built systems devoted to the ecommerce industry. Payment Online's Transaction Servers are modular based and have already integrated with a variety of payment gateways, multiple-protocol-exchanges, banking processors, database servers, and customer management tools.

3. Features-List - API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution.

The following is a list of the features attributed to this ecommerce solution:

One of the most flexible e-commerce solutions available.
Seamlessly works with your existing Web site design.
Comprehensive transaction processing with almost unlimited scalability.
A completely integrated solution on powerful back-end application servers.
Real-time online credit card processing.
Integrated Internet merchant Account (2.15% Visa/MC rate in most cases).
Integrated Payment Gateway connection to the credit card banking network.
Integrated SSL secure connection to Transaction Servers.
Up to 100 Mbps bandwidth with one hop to the Internet Backbone.
Carrier-class Data Center for Transaction/Recurring/Internet/Database Servers.
Secure Online Management Tools for transaction management.
Security AVS (Address Verification System) Settings availability.
Security CVV2 (key code at the back of credit cards) availability.
Easy to use CRM (Customer Relations Management) functionality.
10 different ways to produce quick sales/marketing reports.
Search customer orders/transactions.
Download customer database in text format and import to MS Excel.
One-click transaction history report of a customer/Member.
One-click Virtual Terminal for manual sales processing.
One-click Virtual Terminal for issuing credits.
Technical Support and Customer Care Services.

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4. PRICING - API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution.

The standard pricing for the API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution is described below. Please note that in order to accept credit cards on the Internet, a merchant needs an Internet Merchant Account, as well as a web site and an ecommerce solution that is applicable to their business model - in this case, API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution.

If you already have an Internet Merchant Account, contact Payment Online and speak to a sales professional and explain that you already have an Internet Merchant Account - and only require the API ecommerce solution itself.

Please note that we have described the pricing as thoroughly as possible to avoid any misunderstandings. The repetition below is intended to avoid hidden costs that some ecommerce providers in the industry are known for. We like to treat others the way we want to be treated ourselves: full disclosure and honesty.

API (shippable-products) ecommerce solution - One time setup fee: $495

Other Service fees:

If you have any questions, you can contact our sales teams (9am-5pm PST) on (206) 382-1515, and ask to speak to a sales professional.

For your convenience, you can also contact us by e-mail. Simply CLICK HERE and you can send us your questions. We also welcome your comments and appreciate the time you take to let us know how we can serve you better.

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