E-commerce payment card system launches

Actinic, the UK expert in e-commerce for small and medium-sized businesses, has released a new card payment system, Actinic Payments, for Actinic e-commerce stores.

The service is powered by the Creditcall payment infrastructure, arguably the most robust and reliable in the industry, with 100 per cent uptime since 2005.

Actinic Payments enables small and medium businesses to meet the latest banking security standards at a very reasonable cost.

It offers full Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Level 1 certification, across the board 3D-Secure compatibility and integration with all major banks.

Actinic Payments comes in a highly competitive range of price bands designed to suit different business sizes with differing order volumes.

Used with Actinic's award-winning e-commerce products, Actinic Payments provides high levels of efficiency for the merchant, with most common payment functions accessible directly from the order-processing application.

These include pre-authorisations, refunds, voids and additional payments - all achieved without storing any payment card details in-house.

The system also offers payment processing for mail order/telephone order (MOTO), providing a complete multi-channel payment processing system.

Appropriate merchant accounts are required.

Actinic CEO Chris Barling said: "With the introduction of Actinic Payments, all Actinic merchants now have access to a one-stop shop where any technical or operational issues can be resolved with a single phone call.

"Yet the service is very cost competitive while offering easier order and payment processing.

"We are convinced that it will be a winning formula, and this certainly seems to be the case based on our early discussions with customers".

For Creditcall, CEO Peter Turner commented: "We are very pleased that Actinic chose us as their payment partner.

"From the beginning of the discussions, it was clear that Actinic intended to offer a service that was superior to anything comparable, which fitted well with CreditCall's established policy of providing customers with the best solutions available.

"The partnership will allow Actinic's customers to benefit by having affordable access to a world-class payment gateway".

Contract price: GBP100 per annum; Setup: GBP20; Transactions included 800 per annum; 39p per additional transaction.

Contract price: GBP20 per month; Setup: GBP50; Transactions included 350 per month; 10p per additional transaction.

Contract price: GBP40 per month; Setup: GBP50; Transactions included 600 per month; 8p per additional transaction.

Higher volumes can attract lower fees.

Sign-up fees will be waived until 31 July 2008.

For the technically minded, Actinic Payments, powered by Creditcall, is based on four distinct geographic server locations across two continents, with fully automated failover/recovery between locations.

The entire network has distributed denial of service (DDOS) protection already in place.

All system updates are performed on a rolling basis, resulting in no downtime for planned or unplanned maintenance or service failure since 2005.

Service uptime is always expected to exceed 99.9 per cent.

The service has been PCI DSS Level 1 certified since December 2005 and is fully 3D Secure (Verified by Visa and Mastercard SecureCode) ready.

The service works with merchant accounts from Barclaycard, HSBC, Lloyds Cardnet, Natwest/RBS Streamline, HBOS and Elavon/Alliance and Leicester.

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