How Online Credit Card Processing Really Works - in 9 steps
How Online Credit Card Processing Works
Shopping Cart
1 The Customer makes a purchase
2. They pay using a credit card
Merchant Account
9. The money is deposited to the merchant
7. The approval decision is sent back to the website and merchant.
3. The merchant submits a credit card transition.
Payment Gateway
6. The processor sends the gateway approval/ decline
4. The Payment Gateway sends off the secure transaction to the Processor.
5.
The PRocessor
5A The processor sends transaction to the credit card network
5B cc network sends the transaction to the customer's credit card bank
5D cc network sends results to processor
5C the bank approves or denies transaction
8. the customer's bank sends the money to the cc network which then sends it to the merchant bank.
How Online Credit Card Processing Really Works - in 9 steps
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