What is payment gateway?
Payment gateway is a service or you can say an interface which allows users to process their credit transactions. There are many payment gateways available which provides different services with one thing is common in them that all gateways are exists to process payment transactions.Payment gateway is necessary in the online business. Lets say when you go to any store and pay them for your purchase with your credit card using machine, payment gateway allow same thing that customers provide their credit card numbers in a secure page to purchase products online.
About WorldPay
WorldPay is one of the most used UK and Europe’s card payment processor and it provides secure and reliable services to businesses. The idea behind payment gateways is to allow users to make financial transactions between computers quickly and with the highest degree of security. Now a day this has turned into one of the world’s primary methods of e-payment.
WorldPay is an e-payment service that allows businesses or individuals to transfer funds electronically. We can use it to make donations, pay for services, purchase goods, online auctions.
Official website of WorldPay Payment Gateway
Testing environment
WorldPay is providing special environment called testing environment which enables you to test your setup and installation while developing websites or integrating WorldPay payment gateway. It allows users to process transactions without transferring funds. It is a kind of simulation of real live environment. It also provides transaction details, reports, etc… for test environment too.
Test account login
WorldPay documentation and help
WorldPay provides corporate gateway guides and enough information which can be very useful while integration process, switching from test to production, using merchant interface, etc… Those guides can be downloaded from here: WorldPay Documentation and Guides
Drawback of WorldPay
They are providing sandbox mode to test integration but not providing free test merchant account and and there is a cost associated with the setup too.