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All You Need to Know About Internet Credit Card Payment Processing

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To accept online payments, you need a payment processor and payment gateway. The payment processor is a financial institution that handles transactions between the two banks. Think of the gateway as the online equivalent of a card reader or point of sale (POS) system in a brick-and-mortar store.

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A third-party processor is a provider that allows a business to accept payments without opening its own merchant account. This triggers the payment processor to send the transaction through a payment gateway which verifies the validity of the card and checks if the donor is a human (not a robot) and the card is not fraudulent.