Processing and Accepting Orders
When processing and accepting orders from an E-commerce Website, security is of the highest importance. If
visitors to the site do not feel comfortable they will not purchase goods and services from your Web site.
By adding SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to the server you are able to provide a secure environment to handle
transactions.
- Secured - When information is passed to and from the server it needs to encrypted to protect the
parties sending an receiving from the Web site. Adding SSL (Secure Socket Layer) will give you 128byte
encryption for all information passed from the server. There are three points at which it is important
to have SSL or some other form of security performing e-commerce transactions:
- When the customer is entering payment information
- When the e-commerce program sends information to a Payment Gateway for authorization and capture
of payment information
- When the merchant is viewing orders and payment information
- Non-Secured - not a real option if you are considering an E-commerce solution. The Web site needs to
have a secure operation for sending and receiving information.
For more information about SSL (Secure Socket Layer), see:
SSL - (Secure Socket Layer)
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