electronicpaymentppt-140601022736-phpapp02 (1).pdf
- 2. Definition Electronic Payment System: E-Commerce or Electronics Commerce sites use electronic payment where electronic payment refers to paperless monetary transactions. Electronic payment has updated the business processing by reducing paper work, transaction costs, labor cost. Being user friendly and less time consuming than manual processing, helps business organization to expand its market.
- 3. Modes Of EPS Credit Card Debit Card Smart Card E-Money Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) E-Cheque
- 4. Credit Card Payment using credit card is one of most common mode of electronic payment. Credit card is small plastic card with a unique number attached with an account. It has also a magnetic strip embedded in it which is used to read credit card via card readers. When a customer purchases a product via credit card, credit card issuer bank pays on behalf of the customer and customer has a certain time period after which he/she can pay the credit card bill.
- 5. Credit card payment process Step Description Step 1 Bank issues and activates a credit card to customer on his/her request. Step 2 Customer presents credit card information to merchant site or to merchant from whom he/she want to purchase a product/service. Step 3 Merchant validates customer's identity by asking for approval from card brand company. Step 4 Card brand company authenticates the credit card and paid the transaction by credit. Merchant keeps the sales slip. Step 5 Merchant submits the sales slip to acquirer banks and gets the service chargers paid to him/her. Step 6 Acquirer bank requests the card brand company to clear the credit amount and gets the payment. Step 6 Now card brand company asks to clear amount from the issuer bank and amount gets transferred to card brand company.
- 7. Debit Card Debit card, like credit card is a small plastic card with a unique number mapped with the bank account number. It is required to have a bank account before getting a debit card from the bank. The major difference between debit card and credit card is that in case of payment through debit card, amount gets deducted from card's bank account immediately and there should be sufficient balance in bank account for the transaction to get completed. Whereas in case of credit card there is no such compulsion.
- 8. Smart Card Smart card is again similar to credit card and debit card in apperance but it has a small microprocessor chip embedded in it. It has the capacity to store customer work related/personal information. Smart card is also used to store money which is reduced as per usage. Smart card can be accessed only using a PIN of customer. Smart cards are secure as they stores information in encrypted format and are less expensive/provides faster processing.Mondex and Visa Cash cards are examples of smart cards.
- 9. E-Money E-Money transactions refers to situation where payment is done over the network and amount gets transferred from one financial body to another financial body without any involvement of a middleman. E-money transactions are faster, convenient and saves a lot of time. Online payments done via credit card, debit card or smart card are examples of e-money transactions. Another popular example is easypaisa, mobicash, timepay.
- 10. Electronic Fund Transfer It is a very popular electronic payment method to transfer money from one bank account to another bank account. Accounts can be in same bank or different bank. Fund transfer can be done using ATM (Automated Teller Machine) or using computer through bank website.
- 11. E-Cheque In this system bank provide you a software through which you can create your own e-cheque and fill with amount and transfer to where you want.