Communicating With A Gateway Payment System
Internet and Businesses Online August 23rd. 2011, 2:12amYou are not actually the one communicating with a gateway payment system, the credit cards are doing that. They are talking to the banks and the processors to determine if the transaction can go through or not. The whole process takes about two seconds and it often happens so fast that you aren’t realizing all that it is doing in that process. It helps to if it is a credit card issued off a commonly used bank. That way it happens in a split second.
