Payment Gateway
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A Payment Gateway is a technology merchants use to accept customer debit or credit card purchases. The term includes the physical card-reading devices found in brick-and-mortar retail stores and the payment processing portals found in online stores.
A payment gateway is the final step in the sales process on an e-commerce website. It helps finalize the transaction by encrypting sensitive credit card details, ensuring that information is passed securely from the customer to the merchant and then from the merchant to the payment processor.
Examples of payment gateways include and . Each of these services allows a website to accept payments securely.
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