Web payment system
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This document discusses various forms of online payment systems including payment cards, electronic cash, electronic wallets, and smart cards. It outlines the basic functions of online payment systems and how payment cards, electronic cash, and stored-value cards work. It also discusses technologies like electronic wallets, smart cards, and security issues like phishing attacks that threaten online financial institutions.
Web payment system
- 1. Payment Systems For Electronic Commerce
- 2. 2 Objectives In this chapter, you will learn about: • The basic functions of online payment systems • The use of payment cards in electronic commerce • The history and future of electronic cash • How electronic wallets work • The use of stored-value cards in electronic commerce • Internet technologies and the banking industry
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- 4. 5 Online Payment Basics • Scrip: Any substitute for currency which is not legal tender, and is often a form of credit. – For example… • Digital cash minted by a company instead of by a government (e.g., Linden Dollars) • Gift certificates or gift cards • Subway tokens or arcade tokens
- 5. 6 Payment Cards • The term payment card describes all types of plastic cards used to make purchases • Credit card – Has a spending limit based on a user’s credit history • Debit card – Removes an amount from a cardholder’s bank account – Transfers it to the seller’s bank account • Charge card – Carries no spending limit – Amount charged is due at the end of the billing period
- 6. 7 Advantages and Disadvantages of Payment Cards • Advantages: – Widespread acceptance – Usually have built-in security for merchants • Disadvantage: – Payment card service companies charge merchants per- transaction fees and monthly processing fees
- 7. 8 Payment Acceptance and Processing • Steps followed once a merchant receives a consumer’s payment card information: – Merchant authenticates payment card – Merchant checks with payment card issuer • To ensure that credit or funds are available • Puts a hold on the credit line or the funds needed to cover the charge – Settlement of balance with the issuer
- 8. 9 Open and Closed Loop Systems • Closed loop systems – Card issuer pays the merchants that accept the card directly and does not use an intermediary • Open loop systems – Involve three or more parties (e.g., systems using Visa or MasterCard)
- 9. 10 Merchant Accounts • To process payment cards for Internet transactions an online merchant must set up a merchant account • New merchants must supply: – Business plans – Details about existing bank accounts – Business and personal credit histories
- 10. 11 Processing Payment Cards Online • InternetSecure – Provides secure payment card services • First Data – Provides merchant payment card processing services with the following programs: • ICVERIFY and WebAuthorize • Banks connect to an Automated Clearing House (ACH) through highly secure, private leased telephone lines
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- 12. 13 Electronic Cash • Term that describes any value storage and exchange system created by a private entity that: – Does not use paper documents or coins – Can serve as a substitute for government-issued physical currency
- 13. 14 Micropayments and Small Payments • Micropayments – Internet payments for items costing from a few cents to around $1 • Small payments – Payments of less than $10
- 14. 15 Privacy and Security of Electronic Cash • Concerns about electronic payment methods include: – Privacy and security – Independence – Portability – Convenience • Advantages of electronic cash include being: – Independent and portable
- 15. 16 Holding Electronic Cash: Online and Offline Cash • Online cash storage – Trusted third party is involved in all transfers of electronic cash – Holds consumers’ cash accounts • Offline cash storage – Virtual equivalent of money kept in a wallet – No third party is involved in the transaction • Double-spending – Spending electronic cash twice
- 16. 17 Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Cash • Advantages of electronic cash: – Transactions are more efficient – Costs less than processing credit card transactions • Disadvantages of electronic cash: – No audit trail – Money laundering and fraud – Susceptible to forgery
- 17. 20 Electronic Cash Systems • CheckFree – Largest ACH (Automated Clearing House) in the world – Provides online payment processing services • Clickshare – Clickshare allows a consumer to have one account at a most- trusted website and buy from other websites without having to pass around a credit-card number, register or give out personal information. One ID, one account, one bill.
- 18. 21 Electronic Cash Systems • PayPal – Founding in 2000 and purchased by eBay in 2002 – Provides payment processing services to businesses and to individuals – Peer-to-peer (P2P) payment system • Free payment clearing service for individuals
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- 20. 23 Electronic Wallets • Hold credit card numbers, electronic cash, owner identification, and contact information • Give consumers the benefit of entering their information just once • Make shopping more efficient
- 21. 24 Electronic Wallets • Server-side electronic wallet – Stores a customer’s information on a remote server belonging to a particular merchant or wallet publisher • Client-side electronic wallet – Stores a consumer’s information on his or her own computer
- 22. 25 Microsoft .NET Passport • An electronic wallet operated by Microsoft • Passport consists of four integrated services: – Passport single sign-in service (SSI) – Passport Wallet service – Kids Passport service – Public profiles
- 23. 26 Yahoo! Wallet • Server side electronic wallet offered by Yahoo! • Lets users store information about several major credit and charge cards • Many industry observers and privacy rights activist groups are concerned about electronic wallets
- 24. 27 W3C Micropayment Standards Development Activity • Common Markup for Micropayment Per-Fee- Links – Standards developed by W3C Electronic Commerce Interest Group (ECIG) – Provide extensible and interoperable way to embed micropayment information in a Web page • Extensible system – One that developers can add to (or extend) without voiding any earlier work on the system
- 25. 28 The ECML Standard • Electronic Commerce Modeling Language is a protocol that dictates how online retailers structure and setup their checkout forms – Proposed alternative standard that would replace electronic wallet standards with a single standard
- 26. 29 Stored-Value Cards • Stored-value cards can be an elaborate smart card with a microchip that records a currency balance • Common stored-value cards include: – Prepaid phone, copy, subway, and bus cards
- 27. 30 Magnetic Strip Cards • Magnetic strip cards – Cannot send or receive information – Cannot increment or decrement value of cash stored on the card – Processing must be done on a device into which the card is inserted
- 28. 31 Smart Cards • Stored-value cards that… – Can hold private user data, such as financial facts – Can store about 100 times more information than a magnetic strip plastic card – Safer than conventional credit cards
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- 30. 33 Smart Cards • Smart Card Alliance: – Promotes benefits of smart cards – Promotes widespread acceptance of multiple- application smart card technology – Members include companies in banking, financial services, computer technology, and healthcare – Promotes compatibility among smart cards, card reader devices, and applications
- 31. 34 Internet Technology and the Banking Industry • Paper checks – Used to make the largest dollar volume payments • Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (Check 21) – Permits banks to eliminate the movement of physical checks entirely • That’s why Wal-mart returns your check to you after the transaction is finished
- 32. 35 Phishing Attacks • Basic structure: – Attacker sends e-mail messages to a large number of recipients – Message states that an account has been compromised and the matter should be corrected – Message includes a link – User enters a login name and password, which the perpetrator captures – Once inside a victim’s account, the perpetrator can access personal information
- 33. 36 Phishing Attack Countermeasures • Most important step that companies can take today is to educate Web site users • Many companies contract consulting firms that specialize in anti-phishing work • Anti-phishing technique – Monitor online chat rooms used by criminals
- 34. 37 Summary • Most popular forms of payment on the Internet include: – Credit cards – Debit cards – Charge cards (payment cards)
- 35. 38 Summary • Electronic cash is: – A form of online payment – Slow to catch on in the United States – Especially useful for making micropayments • Advantages of electronic cash: – Portable, anonymous, and usable for international transactions
- 36. 39 Summary • Electronic wallets – Provide convenience to online shoppers – Eliminate the need to reenter payment card and shipping information at a site’s electronic checkout counter • Smart cards are intended to replace the collection of plastic cards people now carry • Phishing expeditions create a significant threat to online financial institutions and their customers