Sales of services, goods and products occurs via multiple channels – online, telesales, customer present, via distribution outlets – the payment processing solution you deploy will need to support channels and each channel has its own attributes and thus requirements.

For many businesses the distribution network remains a very significant channel via which indirect sales occur. In the normal course of events these transactions will be processed by the channel, however in the online market place these transactions could be routed to your portal for processing of the payment.

Alternatively you may arrange for your channel partners to use the same payment gateway so that you retain the ability to extract and consolidate payment data through one source.