The so-called gateway is a payment function integrated in the system of shopping cart software.The customers visiting your shopping cart pay you directly through the function of shopping cart. The shop owner check the successful orders at the background managing interface of the shopping cart system, and whether or not the receiving account have gotten the money and decide to send customer the goods. This process is done automatically without the operation of offline re-payment, which improve the rate of sales tremendously and even need not the customer service worker and save the human resources. A deal can not be done in a short time automatically without these excellent payment gateway, because the customers have to contact the service workers for solving the problem of paying and receiving. The system engineers of IECSP have made an intensive study of the payment gateway, and we can make system integration for any payment gateway safely and accurately. The shop owner need not to know this technology completely.

How many websites for online payment are there on the internet?

Currently speaking, the utilization rate of paypal is the number one for it is the most safe and convenient. As the subsidiary of Ebay, Paypal possess not only the necessary online payment function but also the function of credit arbitration, which means that it can control the online fraud effectively. Other websites like paypal include: Moneybookers, 2Checkout, Google Checkout, WorldPay, SagePay, AsiaPay, eWay, HSBC, Authorize.net and so on. If you want to choose the most suitable payment gateway as the paying way of your shopping cart, you should think about the following questions carefullly:

1. Whether or not the customers would like to make a payment through this paying way and understand and trust it.
2. Whether or not customer payment can be done simply, and whether or not the payment gateway open VISA/Master paying way directly to unregisteredd customers.
3. How much about the receiving and withdrawing commission charge of payment
4. How long about the withdrawing cycle of payment, How much about the proportion of the amount of allowing withdrawal and account balance.
5. whether or not the paying way is safe, can provide the good customer service continuously, and have the fair credit arbitration function.

Which payment method is suitable for me?

IECSP suggests that you adopt the payment gateway like Google Checkout,Paypal and so on, if you are in US,and your main customers come from Europe and North America , or provide VISA/MASTER payment way directly. If you are in Asia, and the main customers are in the Occident, Paypal, 2Checkout , Moneybookers are the good choices.All these are necessary for international shopping cart. If your coustomers are only at home,for example,the sales territory of the shopping cart in US is in US, the China`s is in China,you can integrate the local payment gateway, for instance,alipay of China.However, any shopping cart can not integrate all the payment gateway.IECSP.COM can give you a hand if you need the integration of local payment gateway.

How to calculate the shipping cost?

A perfect shopping cart system definitely possess a function of perfect shipping automatic calculation. When the customers visit the shopping cart and want to buy your products ,they need to konw the the price of shipping cost generated by the products they buy,which can be calculated automatically and accurately according to the formula.Firstly,the shopping cart software need to know some informations ,for example, the country and location of the customers,the departure point of the products, weight and bulk of the products,necessary shipping time etc. Shopping cart will calculate the accurate shipping price automatically as long as these information are accurate.For example ,A is customer,and is in US,want to buy a product at English shopping cart-C of China. A find what he want at C,and add it into his shop cart.Since the shopping cart have the function of choosing shipping method and automatic calculation,A can view the shipping cost from China to US immediately , but A never know how does it work. Actually the system calculated the price automatically according to the total weight of the products and the price shipping to US.Since the price is various on the basis of different shipping method, the different price must exist among choosing UPS,DHL or FedEX. Usually the relationship between shipping time and price is under inverse proportion. After considering the shipping price and time synthetically , A choose the most suitable shipping method. The next thing is to finish the order with the online payment system.

How many international shipping methods are there in the world?

The usual international shipping methods now include UPS, FedEX, DHL, TNT and so on. There are the local international transport companies in every country, such as EMS of China , Hongkong Post,etc.