Just £25 p.m.
Secure Payment Gateway for small to medium sized businesses to accept online payments 24/7.- Includes:
- Pay-Link Payments
- Repeat Payments
- Pre-Auth Payments
- Deferred Payments
- Subscription Payments
- 3D Secure V2
- Plus other included services
- Comprehensive Control Panel
- PCI Level 1 security
- Support for over 50 Shopping Carts
- Includes 500 transactions per month
Just £25 p.m.
Virtual Terminal for processing Mail Order/Telephone order card payments securely 24/7 using your online control panel.- Includes:
- Repeat Payments
- Batch Payments
- Pre-Auth Payments
- Deferred Payments
- Subscription Payments
- Anti Fraud mechanism
- Plus other included services
- Comprehensive Control Panel
- PCI Level 1 security
- Includes 500 transactions per month
From £15 p.m.
We offer a range of card terminals for processing payments face to face. Shop, Restaurant, Garage? We have the solution for you.
Also mobile terminals now available.
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Up to 500 Monthly Transactions |
Above 500 Monthly Transactions |
| Ecommerce or Mail / Telephone Order Payments or both as there is no additional charge to add one to the other. |
£25.00 (per month) |
£0.10 (per trans) |
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Service Name |
Charge |
Payment |
| Multi Merchant Interface |
£5.00 |
Monthly |
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| Tokenization Payments |
£20.00 |
Monthly |
Terms & Conditions Apply
Minimum 12 Month Contract applies to all ECOM, MOTO or ECOM & MOTO services. Early termination fee or account remainder will apply for cancellation within the initial 12 month term. Monthly fees are payable via Direct Debit unless agreed in writing. Full Terms & Conditions can be found on our website under the ‘About Us’ section and also via your Merchant Control Panel. For more information please contact the Sales Team.
All new customers will be required to pay for the first 12 months of our service in advance. This will be 12 x the monthly fee for the services that you have requested. We will send you an invoice for the 12 months service once the merchant account setup details have been confirmed to you (and the Direct Debit form received). This payment will need to be made by bank transfer before the account can go live. The 500 transactions per month limit will still apply which means anything above 500 transactions (in any given month) will still be charged to the Direct Debit on a monthly basis. Should you enable any further chargeable services within the initial 12 month period these will be taken via Direct Debit also pro-rata. After the initial 12 month period your account will automatically change to a 1 month notice contract and shall assume monthly billing.
Merchant Account
In order to use our Payment Gateway services it will be necessary for you to have a Merchant Account through one of our acquiring bank partners. If you do not already have a Merchant Account through one of our acquiring bank partners, Total Web Solutions will be able to arrange a no obligation quote on your behalf (rates quoted on this page do not include the acquiring bank charges). We are able to obtain preferential rates and terms when you apply via ourselves. If you already have a Merchant Account that you wish to use please call the Sales team to discuss the switching process.
We are PCI (Payment Card Industry) Level 1 accredited and have been scrutinized by Visa and Mastercard and other leading card scheme brands, to ensure that the credit card clearing services we provide our customers are safe and secure.
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Total Web Solutions is approved for processing all major Credit and Debit cards - including Visa and MasterCard - in a wide range of currencies via four main acquiring banks (Barclaycard, First Data, Global Payments and WorldPay). The following cards can be processed via our ECOM and MOTO services: :
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For merchants wishing to take payments over the Internet (Ecommerce) we include the 3D Secure service as standard. With 3D Secure the card holder will either enrol with their card issuer or be enrolled automatically and any online transactions made will be either authenticated Read More
For those customers who use a shopping basket solution on their web site we offer payment plug-ins to facilitate online purchases. The plug-ins enable interaction between the websites shopping basket and the Total Web Solutions payment gateway. Read More
Total Web Solutions has developed its own anti-fraud mechanism based on industry knowledge. We have added some unique features that check the purchasers card details during a transaction and makes assessments on whether the transaction poses a risk or not.
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Total Web Solutions offers a secure PayPage held on our own PCI Level 1 compliant Secure Servers for ease of use and security. Using the secure PayPage means that you do not need to worry about the security implications on your business as all card data collection and authorisation will be handled away from your own website. Read More
A comprehensive control panel is provided for you to take full control of your merchant acount. The functions of the control panel include reporting, history, statistics, online payment or refund, configuration and others. Below are some screenshots of the control panel functionalities.
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We offer FREE transaction charges for the first 500 transactions in every month. For monthly transactions over 500, we only charge 10p per transaction - making us one of the lowest priced providers in the UK. Please click here for detailed pricing.
For merchants who handle pro-forma orders or wish to give the power to their customer as to when they process the payment for their order, then PayLink Payments is for you. This service, once enabled can generate Pay-Links via your EcomMerchant control panel or can be generated on the fly via an API, both sending an email to your customer containing a web link that will forward them to make a payment against your previously generated order. Pay-Links, once generated can be modified and re-sent to your customer or deleted if required.
The repeat payment service is a useful service which enables merchants to take a further payment from a purchasers credit or debit card without having the original credit card details. This feature available through the merchants control panel will enable a further payment to be taken at an amount specified by the merchant. This mechanism uses the industry Credential On File method of allowing a card to be re-used without re-entry into the system, as long as the merchant has obtained permission from the cardholder.
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For merchants who handle large volumes of subscriptions e.g. Magazine subscriptions or take regular payment amounts from their customers, then this service will meet your requirements. This module, once enabled, will allow merchants to add customers card details to their EcomMerchant account where you can decide the amount and regularity of payment against your customers card. Read More
The Pre-Authorisation payments module enables you to reserve a payment against a customer card until such time you have the final payment amount and you are ready to authorise the card. This is useful in the travel industry and in particular hotels where a customer might have additional costs such as room service and you want to ensure there are sufficient funds to cover them.
The Batch Payments service offers Merchants the ability to process payments in a batch as opposed to doing them one at a time. Card data would be collected in a CSV format by you, the merchant and pasted into your EcomMerchant administration tool. This will in turn process all sales and refund transactions and provide feedback as to which cards were successful and which were not. This mechanism requires additional assessment in regards to PCI accreditation as you would be handling the full card data.
The Deferred Payments service offers Merchants the ability to have more control over orders by deciding when to release transactions. Some businesses need to allow for items that are out of stock or to modify orders and payments for discontinued products. Whatever the merchants reasons this service enables the merchant to have more control over when their customers' credit or debit card is processed. Another unique feature of this service is the ability to authorize a small amount transaction and reverse it to ensure the card details are valid.
Purchases that are made using a mobile phone, smart phone or tablet have been increasing exponentially year on year. To take advantage of this growth, we have now integrated the Pay Page mechanism to allow payments to be taken via these devices. The Pay Page will fit neatly into the designated screen size and allow payments to be processed just like it would be over the web. There are also some customisable features to give your pay page a branded look and feel to your mobile customers.
For merchants who historically have handled card data and wish to relieve themselves of the burden of PCI may wish to implement this service. Tokenization allows the merchant to authorize cards without the need to store or transmit card data. Instead the merchant manages tokens supplied by the EcomMerchant service which can be used once to process a transaction whereby a new token is issued which the merchant must store for a subsequent transaction. This abstraction means merchants can essentially absolve themselves of the burden of having to secure card data and any associated PCI compliance.
The Multi-Merchant Management interface provides merchants with the ability to manage additional merchant accounts for organisations that have either many outlets or divisions. Some organisations may have multiple branches that require separate merchant accounts and separate user accounts to manage them.
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For those businesses wishing to take payments in different currencies then we have a facility to enable multi-currency payments. This service will require a new merchant number for each currency you wish to take payments in. Should you wish to take payments in a particular currency but have the payments settled in another then this is also possible.
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With our payment mechanisms we provide merchants with the ability to pass through a limited amount of information to record along side each transaction. This is sometimes not sufficient for some merchants who require additional information to be stored with each transaction such as product purchased, store purchased from, etc etc.
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The Pay Page mechanism is very flexible and allows you, the merchant, to decide which language to display the pay page in. We support several languages and new ones can be added should a customer have a specific requirement.
Once this service is enabled the merchant just passes in the language to the pay page as a parameter and the pay page is then displayed in that language. We currently support: English; French; German; Spanish.
The referral scheme is also open to existing Total Web Solutions customers. The referral fees can either be paid in cash or added as credit to your Total Web Solutions account. A hard-coded application tracker and marketing flyer can be provided on request.
We will pay a one-off referral fee of £50+VAT for any clients that achieve a live account on EcomMerchant and successfully complete three months of trading on their account. The EcomMerchant account must remain active for a minimum period of six months or Total Web Solutions reserves the right to claw back the referral fee. As a reseller you must invoice Total Web Solutions after three months of your customer being live before payment will be made.
To discuss our Referral scheme offering in more detail please contact our Sales team using the enquiry form
For businesses looking for development services, we are already working with developers who can assist businesses in achieving a successful web presence. Below is a list of business who can assist in this area:
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Terms
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Definitions |
| Merchant |
A merchant is effectively you, the customer. In this information the term
customer and merchant will be used interchangeably.
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| Purchaser |
This will be your customer who purchases from you (The cardholder).
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| API |
Application Programming Interface - This will allow website developers to call specific
functions on our Gateway servers to perform specific tasks such as to confirm a payment has been successful. |
| Pay Page |
A secure web page that can be access over the Internet that asks the purchaser for their
card details to purchase goods or services from the merchant. Each
Pay Page is customizable to the merchants requirements and therefore are different
for each merchant.
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| Merchant Account |
MA - This is a merchant account specifically for use for authorising payments with an acquiring bank. |
| MOTO |
Mail Order / Telephone Order. Any orders taken over the telephone or via Mail
Order by a merchant and processed through their Merchant Account is classed as a
MOTO transaction. MOTO transactions
are carried out using the virtual terminal mechanism in an
EcomMerchant account. |
| 3-D Secure |
This is the protocol (stands for 3-domain,
those being: purchaser;
merchant and bank) used to establish that
the payment being made is by the cardholder and not someone
who has found or stolen the card. This is achieved using
a one time password (OTP) that is sent to the cardholder
during purchase. |
| Payment Gateway |
A generic term to describe a business (such
as Total Web Solutions) that links the Internet network to the
banking network in order to facilitate payments. |
| Shopping Cart/ Basket |
This is a program that runs on a web server that collects information about products
or services a purchaser wishes to acquire before passing them purchaser to our payment
gateway. There are literally thousands of shopping baskets out there and Total
Web Solutions supports a number of these however if your shopping basket is not
listed we will work with developers to integrate it into our payment gateway. |
| Control Panel |
This is an administration tool that is available over the Internet that offers secure
management of your Internet Merchant Account.
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| PCI |
Payment Card Industry - Is a standard setup to improve security of payments using
credit and debit cards. The standard is very stringent and Total Web Solutions
is accredited to the highest Level 1 standard. For more information about
the standard please visit the
PCI councils' web site. |
| PSD |
Payments Services Directive - The Payment Services Directive is an EU Directive adopted in 2007, administered by the European Commission to regulate payment services and payment service providers throughout the European Union and European Economic Area. A new version of the directive (PSD2) aims to enhance security through SCA (Strong Customer Authentication) criteria. See
here for more information. |
| OTP | This is a One Time Password that is sent to the purchasers' mobile phone during an authorisation. This is to ensure that the person making the purchase is teh cardholder and not someone who has stolen the card. |
If you are a merchant that accepts (or plans to accept) Credit and/or Debit cards then you will need to become PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant. Chances are at some point you will have or will shortly receive communication from your acquiring bank (the organisation that provides you with your merchant account) requesting you to confirm that your business is PCI compliant.
Failure to confirm compliance, or being in breach of PCI rules, can result in fines and / or suspension of your merchant account so it is imperative that you understand the procedure to becoming compliant. These fines can be substantial depending on the breach and could also result in you or your business being prohibited from using merchant services in the future. We have laid out some guidelines for you, as a merchant, to becoming compliant.
The information contained in this guide is provided without warranties and is purely for helping you to understand the compliance requirements. The exact requirements for your compliance level can only be determined by your acquiring bank or the card brands themselves. Your acquiring bank should also have their own compliance guide either on their website or available on request from the banks merchant services department.
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) is a set of requirements enforced by the PCI Security Standards Council, created specifically to protect Credit and Debit card data as well as enhancing and encouraging awareness of the standards.
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Depending on how you process your card payments and the size / type of your business you will either need to become PCI compliant yourself by completing an annual Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) to show that you use a compliant solution, or instruct a QSA (Qualified Security Assessor) to assist in attaining PCI compliance status.
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The Self-Assessment Questionnaire is a validation tool that can be used by merchants to show to their acquiring bank that their business is PCI compliant (or at least demonstrate that the business is working towards compliance). There are several different questionnaires to complete, all of which can be downloaded here.
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The exact requirements for your own compliance level will need to be determined by your acquiring bank but the following table will give you an idea based on how you process card payments:
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A QSA is an Information Security Consultant who has been certified (and trained) by the PCI Security Standards Council to carry out onsite security assessments for larger businesses (or businesses that process credit and debit cards directly from their website).
Once you have completed your required assessment it will be up to your acquiring bank (or their chosen compliance provider) to determine if you meet the compliance requirements or not. Most will have an online tool (Compliance Management Service) for you to submit your SAQ and / or network scanning results so that you can get instant confirmation on whether you have passed or not (or an email address to send these to).
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If you have completed the SAQ and / or internal assessment and have not met the required compliance level then you will be given the opportunity to rectify any deficiencies in your systems so that you can continue the certification process or apply again. Your assessor or compliance provider will advise you on the areas that you have failed in and give you advice on how to improve your systems in order to become compliant.
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Below are examples of various types of card processing, which should help you ascertain which category you fall into:
Q.The website collects and stores card data for me to put into my countertop/portable/mobile card terminal at a later time. Do I need to become compliant?
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Total Web Solutions was one of the first UK companies to achieve and maintain PCI Level 1 accreditation and as such we have many years experience in this area. If you are struggling to complete any of the questionnaires, Total Web Solutions may be able to assist you by providing some of the information needed. Please contact the Sales team if assistance is required. Alternatively, you can use a PCI Compliance provider to conduct your requirement level checks and carry out your SAQ.
Read MoreA Payment Gateway is a mechanism used for collecting, authorising and storing card data on behalf of merchants. Typically it is connected to a website via an Ecommerce shopping cart or payment module (e.g. WooCommerce, OpenCart, Shopify, Freewebstore). The purchaser enters their credit or debit card details encrypted into a secure PayPage on the Payment Service Provider’s servers who in turn sends the data through to the card clearing bank for authorisation. Total Web Solutions’ EcomMerchant Payment Gateway is one of the lowest priced secure online payment processing systems in the UK.
A Merchant Account is a service provided by an acquiring bank (e.g. Barclaycard, First Data, WorldPay) to enable business to accept card payments. Transactions are processed using a merchant ID for authorisation but no money is held in a Merchant Account, instead the money is settled via the acquiring bank into the merchant’s chosen bank account (normally a business bank account). A standard Merchant Account would be used for a physical card terminal (chip&pin) so for online payment processing (via a Payment Gateway) an Internet Merchant Account is required. Total Web Solutions is able to obtain favourable rates and terms for Merchant Accounts / Internet Merchant Accounts / Card Terminals via a number of leading acquiring banks due to our buying power.
A Virtual Terminal is a mechanism for processing credit and debit card transactions, as provided to the merchant by the purchaser, via MOTO (Mail Order / Telephone Order). The merchant would enter card details and associated billing details into a secure online control panel for instant authorisation via the clearing bank. Any mail order forms containing card data would need to be stored secured in line with PCI Compliance requirement.
In order to use the Total Web Solutions Payment Gateway you will need to have or be able to obtain a Merchant Account. If you do not already have one we will be able to forward your application to one of the acquiring banks we work with so that they can contact you to provide a quote. Please complete our online application form by click the "Apply Now" link which is located in the menu bar.
It will be necessary for you to have a bank account for us to pay your transaction payments into. Without an account the funds would not be able to be credited to you. In most cases this will need to be a UK Business bank account.
Yes, this is possible for currency transactions. You may have a Pound Sterling Bank account yet your customer base wants to pay in Japanese Yen. This is possible by setting up a Sterling to Yen Merchant number with the Bank. Total Web Solutions supports some many currencies with the option for more through agreed testing with the banks. We will always investigate currency requests by our customers.
Your account will be for retail or a customer present merchant account. There are different types of merchant account depending on how you take your payments. In this case you require an Internet Merchant Account (for Internet transactions) or a MOTO Account (for Mail Order/Telephone Order transactions) which will allow you to process cards through a registered and PCI compliant Payment Gateway like Total Web Solutions.
This depends on which bank you have decided to set-up a merchant account with. Typically this should take two to four weeks however this could take longer depending on how quickly you can provide any necessary documentation so please take this into consideration in your project time scales. Typically, the quicker you respond to the banks quotation the quicker the account can be activated.
Once Total Web Solutions is in receipt of your merchant number (if you receive your merchant number direct from the bank it is wise to forward this to Total Web Solutions as soon as possible) they can setup your EcomMerchant account. A test EcomMerchant account will be setup to enable you to test your account prior to enabling your account on the live system. A test script is provided to each customer and once Total Web Solutions is satisfied that you are processing credit cards correctly it will switch you over to the live system. Documentation is provided to facilitate the testing and integration of the service with your web site. For MOTO accounts no testing is necessary as all transactions are carried out through a virtual terminal in your provided EcomMerchant control panel.
The EcomMerchant account comes with an extensive control panel that allows you to produce End Of Day Reports for all transactions and should allow you to perform other functions also including card refunds. Many features are available through the control panel including Anti-fraud, statistics, Pay Page look and Feel, account security and many many more.
This largely depends on the terms agreed with your acquiring bank for the Merchant Account. Typically it takes one to three working days. In the unlikely event of any problem, missed transactions get batched in the following day so you will always get your funds deposited to your account. All transactions are reconciled daily for each EcomMerchant account.
We have various mechanisms in place to protect us from such an event. We have an identical backup system in place that can be activated within seconds of a major server failure. Our Card Processing System comprises of multiple servers and network devices and we have at least two of everything running at all times to ensure reliable and available service. Often the customer who is making the purchase will not be aware there has been a problem.
We take security very seriously. So much so that we are now externally audited by VISA and MASTERCARD to ensure our security meets their requirements plus some of Total Web Solutions own. We currently have redundantly deployed firewall and intrusion detection systems in place along with the secure storage of credit card data by storing in an encrypted format. Total Web Solutions is a PCI Level 1 Certified payment service provider and was one of the first accredited Companies in the world for this standard. We have worked with a number of security consultants to ensure our systems are as secure as possible and endeavour to introduce new features where practical to maintain the high levels of security our customers expect.
The EcomMerchant account supports VISA, VISA DEBIT, MASTERCARD, MASTERCARD DEBIT, JCB, MAESTRO by default. We can also support both American Express and Diners Club but these have to be applied for separately either via the acquiring bank or directly. Adding further card types is subject to acceptance and testing with the acquiring bank.
At Total Web Solutions we specialise in providing services that work and work well for our customers. Part of the service we provide to our customers using the EcomMerchant facility is the provision of an Anti-fraud feature in your control panel. This Anti-fraud allows you to perform up to 15 unique checks against possible fraud with some of those checks configurable by the customer. Features such as which countries to accept card transactions from, what level of security you would like purchasers to experience when making a payment to you. These features are all explained within the control panel to facilitate its use. This feature is also provided free of charge to EcomMerchant customers.
Firstly, when you use Total Web Solutions we aim to provide a cost effective payment processing solution to you the merchant. With this in mind we charge No Setup Fee and provide 500 transactions free of charge for a low monthly fee. Total Web Solutions are confident that we provide one of the most cost effective payment services in the UK with no compromise on service or security. With EcomMerchant accounts each transaction above the initial threshold is chargeable and Total Web Solutions will bill for these transactions monthly in arrears. As well as this transaction charge the aquiring bank will also charge you for processing cards and their transaction charges will be quoted directly at the Merchant Account application stage. The majority of our customers are charged less than 2% for Credit Cards and less than 1% for Debit Cards (subject to approval - Business card rates may be higher). Please take both the Total Web Solutions charges and the bank charges into consideration when determining your products/services prices on your web site as these cannot be passed on separately to the end customer by law.
There are no setup charges from Total Web Solutions but we do require the first 12 months of service in advance as detailed in our terms. The acquiring banks do typically charge a setup fee if you approach them directly. However, when you apply via ourselves we will generally be able to get this waivered for you due to our partnerships and buying power. Full rates and terms would be quoted directly by the acquiring bank once you have started an application with us
Please see the link to Services and Price to understand all charges. For low volume customers an EcomMerchant account can cost as little as £25+VAT per month which I am sure you will agree is very reasonable indeed, especially when you get so many services included in the price.
We have agreements in place with several UK banks to provide payment services to our customers. These services are based on the bank providing us with favourable rates so that we can pass those onto our customers. Customers would not be able to realise those rates if they had gone directly to the bank.
PCI stands for Payment Card Industry and is a standard born out of the card schemes (such as Visa) requirement to make payment services more secure. Total Web Solutions is a level 1 PCI accredited company which is the highest level accreditation. We have become accredited so you do not have to and by using our Pay Page mechanism card details are seamlessly taken on our secure system which has been rigorously tested to the highest standards in security. There are scenarios where accreditation is required for a customer but this is usually at a much lower level (Level 4) whereby basic security principles must be upheld. Your bank will usually contact you about this to ensure your compliance in this regards.
Total Web Solutions are remunerated by Acquiring banks such as BarclayCard for successful introductions that result in the Acquirer providing merchant acquiring or gateway solutions to a merchant.