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A payment gateway is a platform that permits online debit and credit card payments. The transaction may be a one-time purchase for goods and services or, a customer could provide card numbers for a recurring service or subscription. Let’s take a look at how payment gateways work, security pros and cons, and other related topics.

Is an online-only eCommerce retailer the only type of business that needs an online gateway? As you’ll see in some of the articles that follow, even in-person goods and services providers can benefit from payment gateways—even in their brick-and-mortar spaces. Customers can be directed to payment pages via text-to-pay or QR codes.

Restaurants, home contractors, and doctors’ offices are just a few venues leveraging payment gateways for in-person payments. Of course, it almost goes without saying that payment gateways are indispensable for online shopping.

How are payment gateways safeguarded against fraud and data breaches? Learn more about PCI DSS compliance and IT strategies like proxy piercing in our security-focused blog posts. Are there best practices for reducing abandoned cart rates and creating a positive customer experience? Indeed there are…and we’ll go into those as well.

One area where payment gateway security is paramount is subscription services. Subscriptions require businesses to store card information. How can that be done securely, while still automating the monthly, quarterly, or yearly payments? You’ll learn about that in the blog posts that cover subscription services. Check out all these topics and more in the articles below.