Network Merchants Inc (NMI) Creates Three Step Redirect API, Providing Merchants Higher Security, More Flexibility, and Control.

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Network Merchants Inc (NMI), a leading payment gateway provider for ISOs and MSPs, announces its Three Step Redirect API, an innovative, completely transparent, patent pending interface that provides a secure and flexible way for merchants to integrate their website with a PCI compliant payment gateway while maintaining their own look and feel. The Three Step Redirect API's cutting edge technology provides the easiest way for merchants to achieve and retain PCI Compliance.

NMI's Three Step Redirect API applies a three step methodology where sensitive credit card information is transmitted directly to the payment gateway through an end-to-end Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection, bypassing the merchant's server and payment application. NMI's Three Step Redirect provides a solution to ensure secure data transmission by keeping merchants from seeing, touching, handling, transmitting, or storing any sensitive payment details.

"The traditional API provides a one-dimensional transaction transmission process where sensitive payment information is transmitted and stored in the merchant's environment," said Nick Starai, NMI's Director of Product Development. "The Three Step API allows merchants to process transactions without transmitting any payment information through their web application. This unique approach provides best of class application flexibility while limiting PCI compliancy concerns," Starai added.

With NMI's Three Step Redirect, merchants are no longer subject to vulnerability scanning to become PCI certified. "At this junction, customer information from the merchant's website can be compromised by sniffers," said Ted Cucci, NMI's Chief Operating Officer. "The Three Step will take merchants outside the scope of transferring sensitive payment information while reducing the cost of maintaining PCI Compliance," Cucci added.

About NMI:

Network Merchants Inc builds e-commerce payment gateways for companies that process retail and online transactions in real-time anywhere in the world.

With an exceptional team of software engineers, NMI created, maintains and delivers a substantial suite of payment solutions through a unique channel of distribution. This channel is comprised of financial institutions, ISOs/MSPs, payment processors, VARs, e-commerce developers and hardware manufacturers interested in retaining their existing merchant-customers and acquiring new business. With an easy to integrate transparent and private-label program, Affiliate Partners maintain their own look and feel while providing merchants with efficient and secure payment processing solutions. For more information, please visit www.nmi.com.

SOURCE Network Merchants Inc