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Low-PCI checkout pages

Branded hosted checkout pages with minimal integration effort

Hosted Checkout is for businesses in the USA. US ecommerce team selecting provider-hosted order checkout; distinguish this order-linked session from a reusable Payment Page. The sections below separate the workflow, the control and its limit, and the account facts to confirm before you rely on them.

  • Launch checkout in days not months
  • Branded page with your logo and colors
  • Reduced PCI scope vs custom card forms
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RapidCents hosted checkout with order totals and card fields.
A RapidCents hosted checkout page at checkout.rapidcents.com, with the order summary and totals on the left and the card fields on the right, footed by SSL and PCI DSS assurances.
  • 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

  1. Create checkout session via API with amount and metadata.

  2. Redirect customer to hosted payment URL.

  3. Customer completes 3-D Secure if challenged.

  4. Webhook confirms payment; customer returns to your site.

  5. 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.

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 on core plans.

For businesses in the USA

A direct answer for a business in the USA: the workflow, the limit, and what to confirm next.

  • The payment workflow

    Follow a US shopper from a cart into a hosted session and back to the order confirmation. In practice, the supported amount/order-reference handoff and trusted payment result. Keep this page focused on integrating checkout with an existing order system, rather than publishing a general-purpose payment destination. Confirm eligibility, presentment currency, settlement currency and the enabled payment methods on the USA merchant account before quoting them. An illustrative amount is an example, not a fee or a funding promise. Hosted Checkout does not, by itself, prove delivery or win a dispute.

  • The problem and the limit

    The practical view covers expiry, cancellation, amount integrity, duplicate attempts and verified server-side confirmation. In practice, the actual card-data boundary and remaining merchant responsibilities; hosted checkout does not justify claiming all PCI obligations disappear. Include a tested incomplete-payment scenario. Confirm eligibility, presentment currency, settlement currency and the enabled payment methods on the USA merchant account before quoting them. An illustrative amount is an example, not a fee or a funding promise. Hosted Checkout does not, by itself, prove delivery or win a dispute.

  • What to confirm

    Before you rely on this, confirm US enablement, methods, currencies, branding, accessibility and return URLs. Name differences between supported redirect and embedded modes. Quote setup/processing terms without promising launch in days or assuming every Canadian method or integration is available to US accounts. Confirm eligibility, presentment currency, settlement currency and the enabled payment methods on the USA merchant account before quoting them. An illustrative amount is an example, not a fee or a funding promise. Hosted Checkout does not, by itself, prove delivery or win a dispute.

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?

USD 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.

How does hosted checkout connect to my USA online store?

For a business in the USA, the practical view covers session creation, customer handoff, return pages and trusted confirmation, naming validated connector/API paths. This depends on the approved USA account setup and does not remove the merchant's own records or dispute duties.

Does hosted checkout remove every PCI responsibility?

For a business in the USA, in practice, approved data handling and remaining duties; compliance must review implementation-specific scope. This depends on the approved USA account setup and does not remove the merchant's own records or dispute duties.

What happens if a shopper closes the page or payment is declined?

For a business in the USA, record session, cancellation and failure states, safe retry behavior and how the order remains unpaid until verified. This depends on the approved USA account setup and does not remove the merchant's own records or dispute duties.

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