Benefits of the Verisign "PayFlow Solution" - an overview
1. Enables real-time on-line payments
2. A highly secure solution: 1024 bit RSA encryption and DES wrappers
3. Easy to install and operate
4. Supports multiple operating systems
5. Easy connection with most popular store-builders
6. Broadest financial connectivity (companies can keep existing bank relationships)
7. Tested and flexible solution that supports multiple consumer interfaces - SSL, several wallets, including SET
8. Clear and easy migration path to new payment services and standards
9. Leverage brand recognition of Verisign to enhance consumer confidence
when paying on-line
10. Low up-front costs

Verisign links your virtual storefront with your credit card processor, providing authorizations at the time of purchase. After the sale, Verisign provides a full HTML interface for capturing and settling transactions. This real-time, secure credit card authentication service is based on digital signatures. They are able to make it as safe and easy to transact business on the Internet as it is in the physical world.

Verisign provides broad connectivity, with connections to over 95% of acquiring banks through the following processors: First Data Corporation, Paymentech, Global Payment System, Vital, Checkfree, Wells, NOVA, NPC and Sligos European.

Verisign has partnerships and networks in Canada, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They also maintain extensive connections to world partners throughout Europe and in the Asia/Pacific region. Their global partnerships enable shoppers world-wide to have access to products and services from merchants in Europe, North America and Asia.

Each Verisign transaction is automatically encrypted, to avoid risk to you or your customers. Verisign transactions are encrypted with 768-bit RSA security for all financial data. This security does not depend on SSL channels and therefore is not less secure for international transactions. All credit card information is also encrypted in the merchant database to protect it from any post-sale attack. Even information sold and delivered by the Verisign system ("payloads") is protected with 40-bit DES encryption to prevent snooping by those who did not pay for the goods.

For more detailed information about on-line credit card processing, see: http://www.verisign.com/products/payment.html/

How To Sign Up
To set up Verisign PayFlow capabilities on your Missouri Web Service Web Site, follow these steps:
Step 1: Contact the institutions involved. Establish a merchant account with a bank that uses Verisign and actually processes the card for you. Sign up with Verisign at their site (http://.Verisign.com). Since we are not a bank, we cannot include that service. It is the merchant bank that negotiates a fee with Verisign.
Step 2: Run the Verisign installation program in the control panel.
Step 3: Run some test transactions.
Step 4: Let Verisign know when you are ready to go live!