The merchant does not install specific software. The merchant generates the appropriate invoice tags in its HTML pages to enable the Wallet Manager. The major difference in eCoin's design is that the merchant's task and operation burden is greatly simplified. The merchant does not have to set up processing software. Its only task is to generate the invoice tag into the html, therefore very cost effective.
All processing is handled by the broker who does the issuing and recollecting of ecoins.
The merchant contacts the broker to get an embedded invoice tag. This step can be done statically through the EasyWeb Wizard or dynamically by the a CGI call. The merchant inserts the invoice tag into the HTML page and sends it to the customer's browser. The Wallet Manager plugin interprets the embedded invoice. The customer clicks on an embedded invoice displayed by Wallet Manager.