What is Payment Gateway in Magento 2 and How does it Work?

 A payment gateway is a third-party service that your e-commerce store needs to accept payments. Just like cash, a payment gateway enables you to accept payment from your customers through payment gateways. Payment gateway accepts credit or debit card details, UPI and other sources of payment from your customers verify their detail and encrypt them before processing them for you.

Thus, sensitive financial information is securely shared from a customer to the store owner and then between the store owner and the bank.

 


As an intermediate between a merchant and a bank, an eCommerce payment gateway keeps customers’ privacy and reduces monetary problems for a merchant. But how does the Magento payment gateway works? Let’s know more about this process below.

 


  • Customers select the product they want to place an order for by filling in their card details, followed by pin number and OTP. the information is encrypted and transferred to the payment gateway.

  • The payment gateway gets the order and authenticates the store with a Digital Certificate (a sort of your online shop ID). A customer gets some options to choose a preferred payment method, and the payment gateway transfers the details to either the acquiring bank or a merchant account.

  • The transaction is then accepted or denied (depends on the balance available in the customer’s bank account) the registred account with issuing bank or credit card (Mastro, Master, VISA, American Express) authenticates the transaction. 

  • The bank transfers the money via the payment gateway, and the payment gateway transfers the processed payment to the vendor account. Depending on the speed of the payment gateway, it may take a few minutes or a few working days for the money to transfer to a merchant account.

This entire process takes a maximum of 2-3 seconds. The last step to redirect the money may take a few days, but it is sure that with a suitable payment gateway your customer will check out in just an eye blink


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