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 get...