There's a few points to make here, mostly summarising what's already been said.
The advantages of having your own SSL certificate are:
- you can capture name and address under SSL. On a fairly busy site, my gut feel is that this will more than pay for the certificate, but I don't have any figures to back this up
- you avoid the security warning when returning from the PSP page (which you get with all PSPs when the browser is set to warn when transitioning from SSL to non-SSL pages). Although by the time the warning is displayed, the money has been taken, it still stops some worry on the part of customers
- you can host images and CSS for bespoking the Actinic Payments pages, although Actinic will be providing this facility in the next couple of months
Actinic isn't designed to work with any PSP where the card details are actually captured on the merchant's site. This is because the hosting, site etc would all need to be fully PCI DSS compliant (expensive and difficult), and capturing cards in this way also invites attack.
Chris
The advantages of having your own SSL certificate are:
- you can capture name and address under SSL. On a fairly busy site, my gut feel is that this will more than pay for the certificate, but I don't have any figures to back this up
- you avoid the security warning when returning from the PSP page (which you get with all PSPs when the browser is set to warn when transitioning from SSL to non-SSL pages). Although by the time the warning is displayed, the money has been taken, it still stops some worry on the part of customers
- you can host images and CSS for bespoking the Actinic Payments pages, although Actinic will be providing this facility in the next couple of months
Actinic isn't designed to work with any PSP where the card details are actually captured on the merchant's site. This is because the hosting, site etc would all need to be fully PCI DSS compliant (expensive and difficult), and capturing cards in this way also invites attack.
Chris
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