Abstract
This paper outlines a novel approach to the integration of a real time payment platform on an ecommerce website hosted locally. A local ecommerce website; Publication Marketing System (PMS) was developed to enable sales and marketing of electronic publications. It was integrated with an easy- to- use payment platform; Voguepay using tightly coupled PhP codes. NGrok was incorporated to achieve a localhost to real time tunneling through the internet to the online payment Platform. This provides an easy and less expensive way of achieving a real-time online payment for e-commerce website and all other websites involving online payments running on local machines in Nigeria.
Highlights
One of the greatest advancements made in information technology is the introduction of online marketing
This paper aims at demonstrating the integration and implementation of a payment processor (Voguepay) as well as an easy and cheap method of tunneling a web application running on local machine to the Internet using ngrok technology
A local e-commerce website; Publication Marketing System (PMS) was developed to enable sales and marketing of electronic publications. It was integrated with an easy-touse payment platform; Voguepay using tightly coupled PhP codes
Summary
One of the greatest advancements made in information technology is the introduction of online marketing. With the rapid growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), online marketing (e-commerce) is acting as a means of carrying out business transactions through electronic means such as internet connections. With the advent of computers and electronic communications, a large number of alternative electronic payment systems have emerged These include debit cards, credit cards, electronic funds transfers, direct credits, direct debits, internet banking and e-commerce payment systems [17]. The e-payment system is an operational network governed by laws, rules and standards that links bank accounts and provides the functionality of monetary exchange using bank deposits It is the infrastructure consisting of institutions, instruments, rules, procedures, standards and technical means established to effect the transfer of monetary value between parties discharging mutual obligations [4]
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