This document discusses various electronic payment methods. It begins by defining electronic payment as a financial exchange that occurs online between buyers and sellers using digital payment instruments. It then describes some traditional payment methods like cash, checks, and money orders. The document goes on to explain popular e-payment methods like credit cards, digital currency, e-wallets, peer-to-peer payments, smart cards, micro-payments, and B2B payments. It provides details on how some of these methods work, such as the credit card business model and digital currency concepts. The document concludes by listing some pros and cons of electronic payments.

1. E-Payment Methods
Group no. 4
Muhammad Irfan Shahid 12
Rooha Mukhtar 16
Course: Electronic-Commerce
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2.  Electronic Payment is a financial exchange that
takes place online between buyers and sellers. The
content of this exchange is usually some form of
digital financial instrument (such as encrypted credit
card numbers, electronic cheques or digital cash)
that is backed by a bank or an intermediary, or by a
legal tender.
 Electronic payment system is a system which helps
the customer or user to make online payment for
their shopping.
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What Electronic Payment system is?

3. Traditional Payment Methods
Payment: The transfer of money from one
individual or legal entity to another
 Cash
 Personal
 Money
Cheques
orders (Bank note)
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4. Selection of Payment Method
 Based on:
 Convenience
 Trace-ability
 Repudiation
 Financial risk
 Fraud protection
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Credit and Debit card
Digital Currency
E-Wallets
Peer-to-Peer Methods
Smart card
Micro-payments
B2B
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Various E-Payment Methods

6.  The most popular payment method
 Cards are issued by a bank
 Unique 16-digit number (including check
digits) and an expiration date
 Third party authorization companies verify
purchases
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Credit Card

7. Credit Card - Business Model
Logical Money Flow
Customer
Bank
Visa
(3rd Party)
Store’s
Bank
2. Credit
Authorization
4. Payment
Customer
Store
1. Charge
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3. Clearance/Settlement

8.  Digital cash accounts like traditional bank
accounts
 Buyers deposit cash in the account and spend it
at E-Commerce sites (acct # is passed using
secure proprietary protocol)
 E-Comm merchants can feel sure of payment
 Customers do not need a credit card and
spending is limited to account balance
 www.ecash.com
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Digital Currency

9. E-Cash Concept
Merchant
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1. Consumer buys e-cash from Bank
2. Bank sends e-cash bits to consumer (after
charging that amount plus fee)
3. Consumer sends e-cash to merchant
4. Merchant checks with Bank that e-cash is
valid (check for forgery or fraud)
5. Bank verifies that e-cash is valid
6. Parties complete transaction: e.g., merchant
present e-cash to issuing back for deposit once
goods or services are delivered
Consumer
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10. E-Wallets
member E-Commerce sites
 Allows customer to submit billing and shipping info
with one click at member sites
 Also can store e-Cheques, e-Cash and credit card
information
 Not as popular as originally projected
 Entrypoint’s InfoGate offers an e-wallet
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 Established by financial institutions in partnership with

11. Peer-to-Peer Methods
 Acts as a trusted third party (e.g. auction purchase)
 To send money:
• Sender sets up an account and requests to send
payment
• Sender places payment into the receivers account by
credit-card
• Reciever is notified of payment via email
• Receiver can transfer funds to bank account or
request a cheque
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 Digital cash via email (eCash.com)
 PayPal.com – digital payment system

12. Smart Cards
in Europe
 Used for health care, transportation, ID, retail, pay phones, loyalty
programs, banking machines
 Smart card readers interface with card and request user PIN for access
 Bank machines can load cards with cash and then merchants can
download cash from card
 Returns anonymity of purchase to customer
 GemPlus, MasterCard are leading supplier of SCs
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 Cards with computer chips embedded on their faces – very common

13. Micro-Payments
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 Long distance phone call charge is an example of
a micro-payment
 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) researchers
originally envisioned MPs:
• Payment per newspaper article ($0.005)
• Payment by stock quote ($0.001)
• Payment per click (Qpass, Inc.)
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14.  B2B transactions are the fastest area of $ growth
on the web
 B2B transactions are substantially larger than
B2C
 Paymantech is major provider:
 24/7 availability, all manner of EFT supported
 many management tools and reporting methods
 Ecredit.com offers real-time automated credit
approval and financing
 TradeCard offers comprehensive B2B Ecommerce facilities on an international scale
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B2B

15. E-Payment Pros/Cons
 Potential for great flexibility
 Low transaction costs
 Rapid and diverse purchase power
 Cons:
 Perfect copying of transactions is possible
 Vulnerability to world-wide attack
 Lack of anonymity, potential for privacy intrusion
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 Pros:

16. References
http://www.slideshare.net/Vishalchd11/the-e-payment-systems
http://www.slideshare.net/birubiru/electronic-payment-systems-705132
http://www1.american.edu/initeb/sm4801a/epayment3.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_system
http://www.slideshare.net/birubiru/eps-6953955
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Electronic-Payment-Options-HomePage
• http://www.slideshare.net/VishalSancheti1/e-payment10708085
• http://pages.ebay.com/help/pay/methods.html
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