I now need a PCI compliant way to receive credit card payments online and your gateway looks perfect. Can I use e-Path and still use my virtual terminal from my real time gateway?
A. Yes you can. What you use to interface with your own merchant account is up to you. Our only requirement is that it is PCI DSS compliant. However, you don’t really have to keep your real time payment gateway virtual terminal because banks have a variety of slightly cheaper manual merchant account types that provide the same or similar functionality in a single package. Commonwealth’s VirtualPOS and ANZ’s MOTO/CardLink bundle come to mind. So, to answer your question, yes, you can remain using your real time payment gateways virtual terminal if this is your choice. But to ensure the high level of security you have with e-Path is maintained through the full process, the service you use needs to be PCI DSS compliant. Q. In terms of the actual credit card security my friend tells me doing it manually is not as secure as doing it by a real time payment gateway because I would see the credit card details. Is this correct? A. No, that’s not correct. In fact it is actually the opposite, by
A. Yes you can. What you use to interface with your own merchant account is up to you. Our only requirement is that it is PCI compliant. However, you don’t really have to keep your real time payment gateway virtual terminal because banks have a variety of slightly cheaper manual merchant account types that provide the same or similar functionality in a single package. The new MOTO version of eVolve from the Commonwealth Bank is a great low cost solution in this respect, as is ANZ’s MOTO/CardLink bundle just to name two. So, to answer your question, yes, you can remain using your real time payment gateway’s virtual terminal if this is your choice. But to ensure the high level of security you have with e-Path is maintained through the full process, the service you use needs to be PCI compliant. Q. In terms of the actual credit card security my friend tells me doing it manually is not as secure as doing it by a real time payment gateway because I would see the credit card details. Is this
