Sell online with checkout that fits how you actually sell

Who this solution is for

• Businesses with a small product range

  A few items, sold repeatedly. A page or a link does the job a full storefront would do badly.

• Businesses with a catalogue

  Where stock, variants and returns matter, and the online store has to agree with the shop floor.

• Quote-and-invoice businesses

  Where each sale is negotiated and the payment attaches to a document rather than to a cart.

Common challenges

• Building more than the sale needs

  A storefront for four products costs more to maintain than it earns, and every extra surface is another thing that can break.

• Handling card data you did not need to touch

  A checkout built directly against card fields widens the compliance assessment. Hosted pages and embedded fields avoid that without giving up the design.

• Online and in-store treated as separate businesses

  Separate stock counts and separate reporting produce two versions of the truth, and the return of an online order at the counter is where they collide.

The RapidCents approach

Recommended capabilities

• Hosted checkout

  A RapidCents-hosted page with your logo and accent colour, wallet buttons on supported browsers, and session expiry on abandoned carts.

• Payment pages and links

  A page or a URL for a small range or a single sale, with partial amounts, custom references and deactivation once paid.

• Gateway API

  For teams building their own checkout: authorize and capture separately, customer tokens, idempotency keys and signed webhooks.

• 3-D Secure by rule

  Authentication triggered by amount, geography or risk signal rather than applied to every sale, so the friction is spent where the liability shift is worth it.

• Reporting beside in-store

  Online orders report alongside counter sales in the same dashboard, so the two are one business in the numbers.

Implementation approach

• Choose the surface

  Match the sale to the smallest thing that handles it properly. This is the decision that saves the most work later.

• Configure and brand

  Logo, accent colour, receipt content and return URLs set before anything is public.

• Test the loop

  A sale, a refund and a settlement checked end to end, including what the customer receives by email.

• Launch and watch

  Live for a period with monitoring on declines and settlement, before any previous route is retired.

What does not change

• Your website

  A hosted checkout is a step in the flow, not a replacement for your site. Customers return to your pages after paying.

• Your in-store operation

  Selling online does not change the counter. The same account and the same reporting cover both.

• What you sell and how you price it

  The surface is a way to collect payment. It does not impose a catalogue structure, a subscription model or a pricing scheme.

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

  Own the merchant's channel-choice decision: one-off service sale, limited catalogue or full storefront. Distinguish this from technical online-acceptance implementation. 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. Sell online does not, by itself, prove delivery or win a dispute.

• The problem and the limit

  In practice, order information, delivery or service terms, deposits and refund records for a U.S. Seller. Include Census retail context only when it helps the decision. 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. Sell online does not, by itself, prove delivery or win a dispute.

• What to confirm

  Correct overly broad currency wording. Keep separate customer location, card origin, presentment currency and the merchant's approved settlement currency and eligibility. 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. Sell online does not, by itself, prove delivery or win a dispute.