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Following on from our previous blog posting, we have since added another two payment methods…

AliPay is an immediate authorization eWallet, renowned in Asia, and the most famous and frequently used payment method in China.  Swiff is an offline bank transfer-like payment option available in Canada, with delayed authorization (pending status) and without chargebacks.

Making sure that the most relevant global and local payment methods are integrated into an ecommerce platform is just one piece of the jigsaw, but a very important piece.

We have just integrated two more payment methods into our ever expanding global ecommerce platform, which is good news to vendors who sell where these payment methods are popular.

AstroPay Card is a virtual pre-paid card for use in Brazil, while paysafecard is a pre-paid card for use in Europe. Both offer immediate authorization, without chargebacks.

The two new additions have already processed a number of transactions in the first few days of operation.

After another rigorous year of bringing new and improved solutions to the e-commerce market, Gate2Shop doesn’t take a break in providing service. Customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of G2S and together with our global offices we provide superior service worldwide. As the market and the competition grow, so does the flexibility of the features in the G2S portfolio.

While specializing in the software and digital content sector of the industry, the developers on the G2S team strive for the perfect solution to every vendor’s business model. With the vast amount of shopping cart applications on the market today, there is never one cart for all uses. By developing modules to increase the reliability and flexibility of the G2S solution gives the vendors the freedom of choice.

The team at Gate2Shop provides the easy to integrate reliable answer to the needs of e-commerce marketers on a global scale. Together with the many other major benefits that vendors receive from the service G2S provides, flexibility is added by providing the right module that the vendor needs. Gate2Shop continues to develop modules to make e-commerce simple. Present modules include but not limited to:

• OSCommerce
• Ekmpowershop
• CS-Cart
• Amplecom
• Avactis
• ViArt
• Zen-cart
• Storedit
• WHMCS
• Ubercart
• VirtueMart
• Oxid
• Smartstore
• XT commerce
• X-Cart
• Our own G2S add to cart

Gate2Shop is a highly trusted international e-commerce provider and authorized reseller for hundreds of tangible goods and digital products and services. G2S.com is backed by more than a decade of experience in the e-commerce industry and provides one of the most secure and comprehensive e-commerce solution packages that give the vendor not only choices in payment solutions but also the freedom of customizing the specific solution for their individual needs.

As Gate2Shop continues to expand the available payment methods and options, China UnionPay is added to the payment options available. China UnionPay also known as UnionPay or by its abbreviation, CUP, is the only domestic credit card organization in the People’s Republic of China. China UnionPay is an association for China’s banking card industry, operating under the approval of the People’s Bank of China. It has provided professional maintenance services to over 350 thousand accepted merchants and 600 thousand POS terminals, and data processing services to 16 card-issuing organizations on issuing credit cards as well.
China’s 16.9 million Internet users, while an impressive figure, this is actually only 1.3 percent of the total population, this does not include Hong Kong and Taiwan. With the expansion of the ecommerce industry there will be more and more people utilizing the internet as a means of conducting both business and day to day tasks. This is the perfect opportunity for vendors to expand their target market along with this growth.

The B2C ecommerce market in China is still in its infancy. Merchants in China are adopting ecommerce, but have not yet applied ecommerce as their principal channel to grow their business and therefore pave the way for ecommerce as a whole. The Chinese economy will be the engine of economic growth in the twenty-first century and is now regarded as the key to future productivity improvements and competitiveness. Given the rapid transformations of production and information systems in industrialized countries, no developing country can afford to remain on the sidelines.

By adding such a payment option, Gate2Shop extends the global sales and marketing reach of our vendors into the rapidly growing Chinese economy. With the continuous need for ecommerce providers in the country of China, Gate2Shop is there to these services available. Adding the UnionPay option gives Gate2Shop and our vendors the services that are needed all over the mainland.

Gate2Shop provides you with the tools to perform automatic transactions for recurring billing. In the e-commerce industry more than 40% of the markets consumer spending is on the continuous routine of recurring bills, from monthly bills, subscriptions and memberships. Now is the time to take advantage of the Gate2Shop fully customizable Rebilling solution.

The Gate2Shop Rebilling is a customized system designed to manage and control the process for recurring billing. It is intended to manage the recurring payments for business models such as memberships or subscriptions. The system supports subscription management, flexible and generic billing-cycle model, transaction submitting and retrying and back-office services which include reporting and notifications. With this feature the daily conversion increases and reduces the task of manually billing.

Benefits of G2S Rebilling:

• Fully customizable cyclic billing operations for memberships or subscriptions
• Available both as software or as ASP
• Flexible email receipts upon reoccurring period
• Predefined retrying scenarios for maximum sales
• Saves time with utmost security
• Higher conversion
• Automatically performed without the end user re-visiting the payment page.
• Re-try engine increases conversion and help improving the sales results.

Payment providers

Your Online Payment Provider is the most important part of your business, and that’s the payment solution.  Being one of our areas of expertise, there are many things to consider when choosing your payment provider, and of course, we recommend using our solution because it provides you with the major currencies and payment methods, and it is customized for each merchant. This can make the difference in your online sales.

Today’s PSP should be chosen on behalf of several distinguishing factors.  The first is reliability.  Let’s face it – profits are the main concern of all merchants, and he who handles those profits should have extensive experience, as well as a reputable history of financial expertise and punctual payments.

Along with the solutions needed to start an online business, more work is needed to keep the online store open. There are financial concerns, merchandise, staffing and of course all the paperwork and the reporting that is left to do.

Some of the services that you should look for:

• Superior Security practices – You’ll want to make sure that the payment provider is PCI certified and practices all available security methods.
• Chargeback guarantee – You should have a guarantee against fraudulent chargebacks.
• Merchant account required or Vendor account – Depending on your business you should know if you need to have a merchant account or if the provider will take care of this and give you a vendor account.
• Multiple payment options – The more payment options that the provider offers, give you a wider and sounder customer base.
• Rapid account processing – This shows you that the provider is serious and has the resources to get your payment processing up and running.
• Superior Risk Management – These practices protect you against fraud and reduce the time you spend worrying about your business.
• Multiple Partnership packages – This is a good practice to look for because of increased traffic and increased sales possibilities. A company with these types of solutions is more likely to take an invested interest on how your business is doing.
• Rebilling Options – The opportunity to perform automatic rebilling for recurring payments.

Most of the stand alone payment providers will not or do not provide platforms with all these features so you have to  either find the right provider or continue your multi-vendor usage.