Low-PCI checkout pages
Branded hosted checkout pages with minimal integration effort
Hosted checkout is a payment page RapidCents hosts and you send the customer to, by redirect or in an embedded frame, so card entry never happens on your domain. The page carries your logo and accent colour, supports 3-D Secure, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and callbacks update your order system. For businesses in Canada, confirm methods and currency.
- Launch checkout in days not months
- Branded page with your logo and colors
- Reduced PCI scope vs custom card forms
- SAQ A eligible redirect flow
- SOC 2 Type II
- Mobile-responsive layout
- Custom success URLs
- No card data on your servers
Who it's for
SMB e-commerce
Sell online without hiring payment security specialists.
Invoice-to-pay flows
Redirect customers from emailed invoice to hosted pay page.
Agencies launching client stores
Standard checkout across multiple merchant sites.
Core capabilities
Redirect checkout
Send customer to RapidCents-hosted URL with session token.
Brand customization
Logo, accent color and receipt footer text.
Wallet buttons
Apple Pay and Google Pay on supported browsers.
Session expiry
Payment links expire to limit exposure of open carts.
Return URL handling
Success, cancel and webhook trifecta for order state.
How it works
Create checkout session via API with amount and metadata.
Redirect customer to hosted payment URL.
Customer completes 3-D Secure if challenged.
Webhook confirms payment; customer returns to your site.
Settlement appears in dashboard deposit report.
Hosted checkout scenarios
Simple product sale
Single-item cart redirects to pay page and back to thank-you.
Donation page
Nonprofit embeds link on campaign site with preset amounts.
Registration fee
Event site collects fee via hosted session after form submit.
Balance payment
Customer pays remaining invoice balance from email CTA.
Dashboard and reporting
Transactions, deposits and exceptions visible in the RapidCents merchant dashboard.
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Merchant dashboard
- Today
- $4,218
- Deposits
- $12,482
- Disputes
- 2 open
- In-person
- $842
- Online
- $1,104
- Virtual terminal
- $392
Demonstration data only
Integrations
WooCommerce redirect
Plugin creates hosted sessions from cart.
Custom CMS
Server-side session creation from any stack.
CRM triggers
Generate pay link when deal stage closes.
Works with Hosted Checkout
Capabilities on the same account, so the parts below connect without a second integration or a second contract.
A payment-gateway integration desk: API response on screen, RapidCents terminal ready for a test sale. Payment gateway
The authorization layer every online RapidCents payment runs through.
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A cardholder completes 3-D Secure on RapidCents checkout, so the issuer can authenticate the online payment. 3-D Secure
Issuer authentication on online payments, which shifts fraud chargeback liability.
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A stored RapidCents token stands in for the card number, with the terminal that captured the original credential beside it. Tokenization
Card numbers are replaced by a token, so nothing reusable is stored in your systems.
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A RapidCents webhook delivery timeline next to the payment that triggered it, with a test terminal on the desk. Webhooks
Signed events your systems can react to the moment a payment settles or fails.
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The RapidCents payment links screen listing created links with their amount, status, click count and whether they have been paid, beside a phone showing the branded page a customer opens to pay $2,500.00. Payment links
A pay-by-link URL you can send by email, SMS or QR code.
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The RapidCents recurring payments screen showing active subscriptions, monthly recurring revenue, failed payments and upcoming renewals, above a list of subscriptions with their plan, amount, frequency and next billing date. Recurring payments
Schedules, subscriptions and instalments billed from a stored credential.
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Rapid.js hosted card fields on a developer workstation, keeping card entry out of the merchant's PCI scope. Rapid.js
Embedded card fields that keep your checkout in your own design and out of PCI scope.
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Security
No PAN on merchant site
Card entry occurs entirely on hosted domain.
3-D Secure default
Step-up enabled for eligible issuers.
Session tokens
Single-use tokens limit replay attacks.
Implementation
Brand assets upload
Logo and color hex codes in portal.
Test redirect flow
Verify success and cancel URLs in sandbox.
Webhook wiring
Mark orders paid on payment.succeeded event.
Production launch
Swap to live keys and monitor first transactions.
Pricing
No setup fee for hosted
Standard card-not-present processing rates apply. No separate hosted page monthly fee.
Cards, currencies and settlement in Canada
What a RapidCents account in Canada accepts, the currencies it settles in, and when the money arrives.
Cards and methods accepted
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, UnionPay and Diners Club cards from any country, plus Interac Debit, Apple Pay, Google Pay and EFT/PAD bank payments, on one merchant account.
137+ currencies, settled in CAD or USD
Process in CAD, USD, EUR and 137+ currencies, and deposit payouts directly into your Canadian CAD bank account or your Canadian USD bank account, so USD sales are not converted twice.
Next-business-day funding and reconciliation
Batches close nightly and deposits arrive the next business day, based on cut-off times and eligibility, with deposit-level reporting in one RapidCents dashboard.
Questions about Hosted Checkout
Redirect or iframe?
Redirect is recommended for simplest PCI scope. Iframe available for embedded UX.
Customize receipt email?
Yes. Configure sender name and footer compliance text.
Multiple currencies on one page?
CAD settlement standard. Display currency follows session configuration.
Abandoned checkout recovery?
Webhook events include expired sessions for remarketing integrations.
How is hosted checkout different from a payment link?
A payment link is a URL you send to one customer for a specific amount, created in the dashboard and tracked as open, paid or expired. Hosted checkout is a page your application creates a session for programmatically, as the last step of your own cart or form. Same reduction in PCI scope, different point of origin.
Does the customer leave my website?
With redirect checkout, yes: they move to a RapidCents-hosted URL and return to your success or cancel page afterwards. An iframe embed keeps the page visually inside your site. Redirect is recommended when the simplest PCI scope is the priority, since card entry never touches your domain at all.
What happens if a customer closes the page mid-payment?
The session expires instead of staying open, which limits the exposure of an abandoned cart, and the expiry reaches you as a webhook event a follow-up flow can act on. A closed tab never reaches your success URL, so the order's status should come from the webhook rather than the browser.
Can I use hosted checkout for more than product sales?
Yes. A nonprofit can embed it on a campaign site with preset donation amounts, an event site can collect a registration fee after a form is submitted, and a customer can pay an invoice balance from a link in an email. Anything that collects one amount once fits a hosted session.
How does hosted checkout connect to my online store?
Your store creates a checkout session through the API, with the amount and order metadata, and sends the customer to the hosted URL. Sessions are created server-side from any stack, and on a supported ecommerce platform a plugin can create them from the cart.
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