Credit card processing for e-Commerce website help.

Question

I have an e-Commerce website, it has a cart and checkout page where the user inserts the following information : name,Country,zip,Credit card number , name on Card etc. Once the user enters all the relevant information and then clicks continue, all the data is sent to a database. My question is how do i carry out the actual transaction after this? As in how am i suppose to make it such that the money goes from the customers account to the business's?

Answer 1

Hi Mogammad!
Your payment processing service should have some documentation for hooking up your website to its API. That would be the best place to start.
My opinion.
-- Janning.

Answer 2

Hi , when you mentioned a payment processing service, are you referring to a payment gateway? and could you elaborate on what you mean by documentation?
Thank you for replying

Answer 3

Hi Mogammad,
Good question! I think this article is pretty useful for getting the lay of the land in that area:
https://home.bluesnap.com/snap-center/blog/merchant-account-vs-payment-gateway/
I like it mostly because handling that type of information is a big responsibility and it talks about PCI compliance.
Regarding what documentation is:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_documentation
particularly the specifications part. It's generally a good practice to reference the specifications of a software (or language) to see what the engineers intended, then Google any problems you run into that deviate from the documentation.
I hope this helps! :)