About This Guide

This section describes how to use this guide and where to find further information.

Audience and Purpose

This guide is written for merchants who want to use
Hosted Payments Page
to process payments without handling or storing sensitive payment information on their own servers.

Conventions

These special statements are used in this document:
An
Important
statement contains information essential to successfully completing a task or learning a concept.
A
Warning
contains information or instructions, which, if not heeded, can result in a security risk, irreversible loss of data, or significant cost in time or revenue or both.

Recent Revisions to This Document

25.09.01

Updated the link to Testing Credit Card Services. See Testing Transactions.

25.08.01

Initial release.

Website Requirements

Your website must meet these requirements:
  • It must have a shopping cart, customer order creation software, or an application for initiating disbursements to send funds to payment accounts.
  • It must contain product pages in one of the supported scripting languages. See Sample Transaction Process Using JSP.
  • The IT infrastructure must be Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) enabled to use SSL-based form POST submissions.
  • The IT infrastructure must be capable of digitally signing customer data before submission to
    Secure Acceptance
    .