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The increased popularity of the internet and high amount of consumer/business potential in the World Wide Web has brought in online services in every field. People who look for instant money and love the world of gambling are also covered in the world of online services. Online casinos or virtual casinos or internet casinos allows gamblers to play casino games in an environment which is as good as a traditional casino. It is seen that some of the online casinos offer better returns than traditional casinos. Online version of the games is generally made by gaming software developers using complex algorithms that offer same kind of gaming experience without any bias.

Online casinos offer both or either web based casinos and download only casinos. Web-based online casinos enable individuals to play without installing any application on their computer. On the contrary

Download-based online casinos would require installation of the software on the host computer and connect to the service provider for playing games. Unfortunately, most of the gamblers feel online casinos could be manipulated and it is difficult to win bets. Thus, to win customer confidence a number of game developers offer free trail software for practice of customers on bidding and gain confidence before involving in an actual game in a online casino. Apart from games some websites even offer sports betting to try your luck.

It was online banking which triggered the idea of going online for shopping. A number of online services came in to existence and so do the number of ways to undertake payments online. Some of the choice available to do an online payment is Person-to-Person (P-to-P), Electronic Cash/Digital Cash, Smart Cards, Digital Wallets, E-Cheque and payment gateways. The choice of payment method is dependent on the number of transactions and the type of transactions in your business.

However, a payment gateway is considered to be safer and secure for small transactions like that in an e-stores. The payments in e-businesses are authorized by Payment gateways which charge fees for the service provided by them. It is nothing but an ecommerce application provided by a service provider. Payment gateways manages two types of accounts in e-business namely, business account and merchant account.

The Payment Gateway application is activated once the order is confirmed in an online store for a purchase. Once the customer place an order in the store gallery, the details in secure socket layer encrypted form is transferred to the merchant server. The merchant server forwards transaction details to the payment gateway which in turn to the merchants acquiring bank. This bank transfers information to the issuing bank. The issuing bank sends information about acceptance or declination of payment to the payment gateway that in turn passes on to the merchant server. This information is again encrypted to post as a response to the customer. Thus, the transaction is more secure since details of the credit card are not stored during the transaction as the issuing bank is queried directly. Some of the most popular gateways are PayPal (Global), Authorize. Net (US), and VeriSign (Global).