Can you sit and imagine an online store
without payment gateway? It’s quite impossible and terrific. Online
payment gateway acts as a service provider for processing the
payments between the customer and the merchant and also between the
merchant and the payment processor. Online store owners like to
impress their customers by integrating payment gateway which ensures
that your customer stays on your site without the need of staying
away from your shopping site to process payments. By clicking on
checkout, customer can enter the credit card details on your shopping
site, and end the process of shopping.
Prestashop Realex Remote is one of the modules implemented for the merchants who wish their customers to experience remote method of processing payments. This module makes use of realex payment gateway. Realex is a European payment service provider this acts as a payment gateway for all credit card transactions. This module accepts all major credit cards supported by Realex like Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, Visa Debit, Solo, American Express, Visa Electron (UKE), Diners Club International, and Laser).
If you are purchasing online product on any shopping site which uses Prestashop Realex Remote Module as its payment method. As soon as you click on “Pay with Realex-Remote”, you need to enter your credit card information on the shopping site without the need of redirecting to the realex site, and then you confirm your payment before ending the payment process. Entire processing of payments happens in the shopping site itself.
Customer credit card information is transmitted from the shopping site to the merchant account via realex remote payment gateway. Another feature of this module is it displays credit card errors in your check out page itself, incase if the customer enters incorrect credit card number, an error message will be displayed automatically on your shopping site. No need to worry about the PCI compliance as it is compatible with PCI DSS. Merchants interested to purchase this module should possess Realex Merchant Account inorder to accept the credit card transactions via Realex Payment Gateway.