Maian Cart offers a number of payment methods for secure credit card payments. Maian Cart has no server-to-server integrations. meaning the buyer will always leave your site to pay via the gateway. Very much like when you buy on eBay and pay via Paypal.

Most gateways offer many customisation options for their hosted solutions, some of which are integrated in Maian cart. Having the gateway host the payment page reduces the cost of PCI compliancy, required by many banks.

Unlike many cart systems that require you to download plugins to make payment methods work, Maian Cart has each payment option fully integrated as default. A lot of API plugin code is badly coded and over blown with unecessary data as it incorporates many methods related to different payment routines. Maian Cart has each gateway integrated with minimal code for efficiency.

Its worth noting that I would like to thank the many gateway developers who kindly answered my integration questions.

Even though the payments aren`t taken on your own website and SSL isn`t required, it is strongly recommended you DO install a SSL certificate on your server to prevent error messages appearing to the buyer about returning to an insecure area. SSL certificates are cheap and worth the investment.

It is recommended you enable test mode for any gateway first to make sure the payment routines are working ok.

Don`t forget to switch to live when your store goes live.

All operations are logged to a text file, so you can see where a payment might be failing. Enable the logs in admin:

System > Global Cart Settings > Gateway Response Logging

It is recommended you leave logging enabled for the first few payments to make sure everything is working.

The available payment options are shown below. More will be added later. For information and setup instuctions click a logo below.

None gateway methods, such as Phone, Bank Transfer, Cash on Delivery & Check/Cheque are also available. More info here.