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It seems that there are only two types of payment gateway service out there at the moment; Either that the entire cart logic is handled offsite (with something like Paypal's Standard option) or the other option being that you need to go through the certification for handling credit card numbers and doing pretty much everything yourself.

Ideally, for the project I'm working on, I'm after a bit of middle ground such that I can handle the cart on-site, and only pass over to a payment gateway (with an order amount, billing & delivery details, and order ref) for them to handle the card details, before passing back.

I'm sure that I've used e-commerce sites using this pattern before, but I cannot find any payment providers out there that offer this sort of option, so are there any? The only over requirement we have at present is that it must accept orders in Sterling.

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I think most e-commerce providers have something like that, I use FastSpring and they have an API where you can post the order details from your cart to their site where they handle the payment. (I think PayPal also have something similar but I'm not 100% sure).

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I still recommend using PayPal for your PayPal payment gateway as it is more accepted world-wide. Pleae do keep in mind that PayPal does not process payment from some countries yet (such as Egypt, and most of African countries).

If you believe you want to do business worldwide, this is something worth considering :-)

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The Google checkout API offers that halfway house of being able to use your own custom cart, without having to actually go the whole hog and handle all the nuances of credit card number handling certification.

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