How IndiaPay Payment Processing works.
IndiaPay payment platform facilitates the secured transfer of information between a merchant portal or a device (such as a website, mobile phone or IVR service or card terminals/kiosks) and the Front End Processor or acquiring bank. When a customer orders a product from IndiaPay-enabled merchant, the payment platform performs a variety of tasks to process the transaction:
- A customer places order on website by pressing the ‘Submit Order’ or equivalent button, or perhaps enters their card details using an automatic phone answering service.
- If the order is via a website, the customer’s web browser encrypts the information to be sent between the browser and the merchant’s web server. This is done via SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption.
- The merchant then forwards the transaction details to IndiaPay. This is another SSL encrypted connection to the payment server hosted by IndiaPay.
- IndiaPay then forwards the transaction information to the payment processor used by the merchant’s acquiring bank.
- The payment processor forwards the transaction information to the card association (i.e., Visa/MasterCard)
- If an American Express or Discover Card was used, then the processor acts as the issuing bank and directly provides a response of approved or declined to the payment gateway.
- Otherwise, the card association routes the transaction to the correct card issuing bank.
- The credit card issuing bank receives the authorization request and sends a response back to the processor (via the same process as the request for authorization) with a response code. In addition to determining the fate of the payment, (i.e. approved or declined) the response code is used to define the reason why the transaction failed (such as insufficient funds, or bank link not available)
- The processor forwards the response to IndiaPay platform.
- IndiaPay receives the response, and forwards it on to the website (or whatever interface was used to process the payment) where it is interpreted as a relevant response then relayed back to the cardholder and the merchant.
- The entire process typically takes sub seconds
- The merchant submits all their approved authorizations, in a “batch”, to their acquiring bank for settlement.
- The acquiring bank deposits the total of the approved funds in to the merchant’s nominated account. This could be an account with the acquiring bank if the merchant does their banking with the same bank, or an account with another bank.
- The entire process from authorization to settlement to funding typically takes 3 days.
IndiaPay also provides tools to automatically screen orders for fraud and calculate tax in real time prior to the authorization request being sent to the processor. Tools to detect fraud include geolocation, 3DSecure or VBV Authentication, Phone ID Authentication, 2-Factor Authentication, velocity pattern analysis, delivery address verification, computer finger printing technology, identity morphing detection, and basic AVS checks.