Can you process a credit card on a mobile website

All,

This might seem like a silly question, but let's say I develop a mobile website. For instance, a website for a pizza parlor which can be viewed on a mobile phone. Can I process credit cards like you do on a "normal" website. In other words, can I do e-commerce on a mobile website? 开发者_Python百科If not, why? If I can, is it the same as creating a shopping card and having the user enter their credit card information and process it, like we do when we buy something on line?

Thanks.

Just to expand a bit on the other answers, yes...

You would redirect away from your pizza site to a page hosted by a payment service provider. That page would capture the card details over SSL, ensure funds are available / card is valid / etc, then redirect back to your pizza site with either a 'payment accepted' type response or 'invalid card' type response.

Where the card is accepted then the gateway will also generally return a 'token id' which you would store against the order. This token id is a reference to the payment details should you need to query anything, (or perform a refund for example).

There are a good number of q&a's regarding integration with payment service providers already on this site which would probably help further.

Yes you can.

Providing the mobile browser supports SSL then it's perfectly doable.

you may need to solve couple of problems.

-cookies/sessions may not work on all phones/networks -ssl may not work properly on some phones/networks. especially ones that proxy users connection to the internet

you can also try billing companies like bango.com (though they ask for large amounts of money! per month)