ONLINE PAYMENT GATEWAY

Abstract

A payment gateway is a merchant service offered by an e-commerce application provider that allows e-businesses to process credit cards or direct payments. This school fees payment gateway is a research project that will provide a reliable method of taking payments from Mountain Top University students. The objective of this paper is to develop and implement a sophisticated payment gateway that helps the university accepts payment in various currencies and even crypto-currency. This paper also explores the enhancement of the existing based payment gateway, using Inter-switch as the case study. In order for the objectives of this paper to be actualized, Android-Java shall be used to develop the system so as it enable it a cross-platform software. We shall also be using an SDK (System Development Kit) of a popular fin-tech organization known as Paystack. Observation and thorough study of existing system would be utilized to gather information. This project is made able to develop an efficient payment gateway which provides solutions to the drawbacks of the existing payment system used in Mountain Top University.