Realex Payments Provides Payments Solution for Shopgate’s M-commerce Clients
London – 18th November 2014: Realex Payments, Europe’s leading payment solution provider, today announces a new partnership with Shopgate, the world’s leading software-as-a-service m-commerce platform. The partnership sees Realex Payments and Shopgate integrated seamlessly to provide a comprehensive payments and store solution for its m-commerce clients, enabling a simple and straightforward checkout process for Shopgate’s 5,500+ merchants across Europe.
Shopgate is seamlessly integrated with Realex Payments. The status of the order is updated in real-time, not only on the merchant’s mobile store but also their original e-commerce store. Shopgate will also store the card details so the customer can easily re-use them next time. Adding this level of superior customer experience encourages repeat custom for merchants.
“Our goal at Shopgate is to deliver the best possible mobile experience for your customers in order to maximize your conversion rate and sales. To achieve this, the necessity for a mobile friendly checkout process is of great importance. Realex Payments adds a convenient way for your customers to go shopping in your mobile store.”
Andrea Anderheggen, CEO, Shopgate
“The Realex Payments and Shopgate integration offers a comprehensive m-commerce solution to businesses selling online. Shopgate’s leading mobile commerce platform will provide our merchants with access to the world’s most popular shopping carts and consumers will enjoy a mobile friendly experience when buying online.”
Gary Conroy, COO, Realex Payments.
Shopgate merchants can now take payments via Realex Payments’ one click checkout, ensuring a fast and seamless user experience for customers. Transactions are processed by Realex Payments and in full PCI DSS level 1 v3.0 compliance.
The features of the free, simple to use module include:
– Payment processing for all major credit and debit cards directly through Realex Payments’ API process in 150 currencies.
– Comprehensive fraud tools including 3D Secure (incl Amex SafeKey), AVS/CVN checks and Realex Payments’ fraud scoring and pattern analysis tool.
– Customisable sub-account rules based on card type.
– 1-Click checkout for a seamless payment experience for returning customers
– Delayed/Deferred Settlement improving the customer experience
For a more comprehensive overview of the Realex Payments Shopgate module functionality and merchant and customer benefits click here.
About Realex Payments
Realex Payments processes over £24 million of payments for over 12,500 online retailers annually, including some of the world’s leading brands – Vodafone, Aer Lingus, Virgin Atlantic, Paddy Power, Chain Reaction Cycles, 32Red, and notonthehighstreet.com. Realex Payments employs 170 people, has clients in 30 countries and offices in London, Dublin and Paris. In addition to having thousands of small, medium and large corporate clients, the business has also developed strategic partnerships with some leading international payment companies such as Elavon and Global Payments (formerly HSBC Merchants Services) for whom it provides a managed service for online payments.
About Shopgate
Shopgate is an award-winning mobile shopping solution provider. Shopgate develops customized native apps and mobile sites for online shops. More than 5,500 merchants in five countries already use Shopgate, increasing their mobile revenues by up to 900%. Every day, over 500,000 orders are made through a shopping app or mobile website provided by Shopgate. Shopgate is shaping the future of mobile commerce and enables consumers to purchase their goods from wherever they are. Shopgate was founded in Butzbach, Germany and Palo Alto, CA by Andrea Anderheggen and Ortwin Kartmann. The company is now powered by more than 150 mobile enthusiastic talents all over the world. Amongst others, Shopgate won the “Red Herring Global 100” award as one of the most promising and fastest growing IT-technologies in the world and the E-Commerce award 2014 in the mobile commerce category. More information about Shopgate’s products and services can be found at www.shopgate.com
