E-Commerce

Performing business transactions with customers through the Internet is the lifeblood that sustains any company wishing to tap into the E-commerce industry. It can be as simple as setting up an email system where customers send over their payment information retrieved by your staff. On the other hand, it can be incredibly technologically advanced, from real-time transactions, cookies, to live sales support.

Pixelus can build custom E-commerce applications and programs suited to your business scope and needs. If doing business online is your company plan, do not hesitate to contact us and we can help you attain that goal.

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily since the spread of the Internet. A wide variety of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at some point in the transaction's lifecycle, although it can encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail as well.

All e-commerce retailers that wish to process credit cards require 3 key components outside of the web storefront itself.

• A merchant account is a contract under which an acquiring bank extends a line of credit to a merchant, who wishes to accept payment card transactions of a particular card association brand. Without such a contract, one cannot accept payments by any of the major credit card brands.

• A payment gateway is an e-commerce application service provider service that authorizes payments for e-businesses, online retailers, bricks and clicks, or traditional brick and mortar. It is the equivalent of a physical point of sale terminal located in most retail outlets. Payment gateways encrypt sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, to ensure that information passes securely between the customer and the merchant.

• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that provide security and data integrity for communications over TCP/IP networks such as the Internet.