No payment is made until the vendor receives the order form and processes it as they would if you made an order over the phone. An online virtual store is a shopping cart with the facility to make a payment on line. Once a customer has the list of selected items and the total cost, they can make a payment with their credit card directly to the vendor's account. The vendor receives both your order and payment at the same time. All web pages are stored on a server and all commerce information is kept on a secure server.
Encryption involves encoding the information thus making it unreadable.
This is an additional security measure. The cgi-bin is where instructions and procedures are executed. Here the information in the order form is processed so that an e-mail can be sent to a vendor or to the sender, or credit card details can be sent to a bank etc.etc. If you have more questions about e-commerce, please use the request information form to contact us. Net Atlantic - Salem Massachusetts USA Tel.