This document discusses various electronic payment systems for e-commerce. It begins by defining e-payment as any digital financial transaction involving currency transfer between parties. It then outlines several modes of e-payment including payment cards, electronic cash, check free, check share, electronic wallets, and smart cards. For each method, it provides a brief introduction and overview of advantages and disadvantages. The document primarily focuses on explaining how payment cards, electronic cash, check free, electronic wallets, and smart cards work as options for electronic payments.
2. INDEX
Introduction to E-payment
Modes of E-payment
Payment cards
Intro to credit card, debit card & charge card
Acceptance and processing
Advantages and Disadvantages
Electronic cash
Introduction and concern of cash
Advantages
Disadvantages
Click Free
Click Share
Electronic Wallet
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Smart Card
3. ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEMS
E-payment or Electronic payment is any digital
financial payment transaction involving currency
transfer between two or more parties
Implementation of electronic payment systems is in
its infancy and still evolving.
Electronic payments are far cheaper than the
traditional method of mailing out paper invoices
and then processing payments received.
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5. PAYMENT CARDS
Payment
cards are all types of plastic cards
that consumers use to make purchases:
Credit
such as a Visa or a MasterCard, has a preset
spending limit based on the user’s credit limit.
Debit
cards
cards
removes the amount of the charge from the
cardholder’s account and transfers it to the seller’s
bank.
Charge
cards
such as one from American Express, carries no
preset spending limit.
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6. PAYMENT ACCEPTANCE AND
PROCESSING
Open and closed loop systems will accept and
process payment cards.
A merchant bank or acquiring bank is a bank
that does business with merchants who want to
accept payment cards.
Software packaged with your electronic
commerce software can handle payment card
processing automatically.
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8. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
OF PAYMENT CARDS
Advantages:
Payment cards provide fraud protection.
• They have worldwide acceptance.
• They are good for online transactions.
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Disadvantages:
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Payment card service companies charge merchants
per-transaction fees and monthly processing fees.
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9. ELECTRONIC CASH
Electronic cash is a general term that describes the
attempts of several companies to create a value storage
and exchange system that operates online in much the
same way that government-issued currency operates in
the physical world.
Concerns about electronic payment methods include:
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Privacy
Security
Independence
Portability
Convenience
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10. HOLDING ELECTRONIC CASH: ONLINE
AND OFFLINE CASH
Two approaches to holding cash: online storage and
offline storage.
Online cash storage means that an online bank is
involved in all transfers of electronic cash.
Offline cash storage is the virtual equivalent of
money you keep in your wallet. However, it must
prevent double or fraudulent spending.
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11. ADVANTAGES OF ELECTRONIC
CASH
Electronic cash transactions are more efficient
and less costly than other methods.
The distance that an electronic transaction must
travel does not affect cost.
The fixed cost of hardware to handle electronic
cash is nearly zero.
Electronic cash does not require that one party
have any special authorization.
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12. DISADVANTAGES OF ELECTRONIC
CASH
Electronic cash provides no audit trail.
Because true electronic cash is not traceable,
money laundering is a problem.
Electronic cash is susceptible to forgery.
So far, electronic cash is a commercial flop.
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13. CHECK FREE
CheckFree provides online payment processing
services to both large corporations and individual
Internet users.
CheckFree permits users to pay all their bills
with online electronic checks.
CheckFree provides part of the technology that
the Web portal Yahoo! uses to provide its Yahoo!
Bill Pay service.
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15. CLICK SHARE
Clickshare is an electronic cash system aimed at
magazine and newspaper publishers.
Users with an ISP that supports Clickshare are
automatically registered with Clickshare.
Clickshare tracks users with the standard HTTP
Web protocol.
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16. ELECTRONIC WALLETS
An electronic wallet serves a function similar to a
physical wallet:
holds credit cards, electronic cash, owner
identification, and owner contact information
• provides owner contact information at an electronic
commerce site’s checkout counter
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Some electronic wallets contain an address book.
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17. ELECTRONIC WALLETS
Electronic wallets make shopping more efficient.
Electronic wallets fall into two categories based on
where they are stored:
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Server-side electronic wallet
Client-side electronic wallet
Electronic wallets store shipping and billing
information, including a consumer’s first and last
names, street address, city, state, country, and zip or
postal code.
E.g. Microsoft .NET passport ,yahoo! Wallet
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18. THE W3C PROPOSED STANDARD
The W3C Electronic Commerce Interest
Group (ECIG) developed a set of standards called
the the Common Markup for Micropayment PerFee-Links.
This standard identifies existing system
micropayment types of online connections,
stored-value systems, and combined onlineoffline systems.
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19. SMART CARD
A smart card is a plastic card with an embedded
microchip containing information about you.
A smart card can store about 100 times the amount of
information that a magnetic strip plastic card can store.
A smart card contains private user information, such as
financial facts, private encryption keys, account
information, credit card numbers, health insurance
information, etc.
E.g. Mondex smart card , Octopus smart card
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