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SAePay is a family-owned business based in
Los Angeles, CA. For over 15 years, the com-
pany has been assisting merchants with pay-
U ment solutions to fit their needs. USAePay's
payment gateway supports most of the major platforms
in the credit card industry and works with some of the
leading check platforms. USAePay is pleased to work
with most of the larger merchant service banks in the US
and Canada.

What’s New:
Enabling the developer

n today's business world, payment gateways and software integrations go hand in
hand. In fact, it's now typical for a merchant of any size to seek out a processing
partner using a gateway that integrates to at least one of the main software pro-
I grams they regularly use. Depending on the business vertical, this program could
be the customer's accounting package, resource management (CRM) program, point of
sale (POS) or inventory application, or an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform.

"As an established payments gateway company, we've seen business technologies evolve
a great deal over the years," said Vlad Galyuz, Vice President of Product Development at
USAePay. "Software integrations are now a key component of our service model and we
do everything possible to make our APIs (application programming interfaces) accessible
and easy to integrate for the software developer."

Self-service at its finest
Just as software integration has evolved, so has the process of implementing the API. While it's always been customary to
test any new technology prior to taking it live into the end user environment in the world of integrations, it hasn't always
been so simple.

"Ideally, when someone is integrating a payment technology within their business software, the developer will run a
series of tests to ensure the coding has been done properly," Galyuz continued. "It's now customary to simulate the
transaction process during development in a sandbox environment to ensure the API coding and any custom features
function seamlessly."

In keeping with this standard, USAePay offers a proprietary sandbox environment that any software developer looking
to integrate electronic payments can access. Through this portal, developers will be able to locate the USAePay payment
gateway APIs and conveniently work through each step of building a fully-integrated system. Once the code has been
Sales portal
applied, the developer can also process "dummy" transactions to confirm all is working as planned and the payment data
is being passed through to the correct business application(s).

USAePay's developer sandbox is easy to access and even easier to develop in. The developer will just need to open the
portal in a browser and make a request for an online account. Once the login credentials are returned to them via email,
the developer will have access all to run test transactions in a simulated environment.
"The USAePay developer portal provides a full simulation of the production gateway and it's the ideal way to build and
test your integration," Galyuz said.

According to Galyuz, the sandbox is also useful to the developer when the merchant hasn't completed setup of a live
gateway account. Access to the sandbox gives the developer a jumpstart on the gateway integration, so there is minimal
delay once the merchant account is live. Since the sandbox environment mimics most of the characteristics of a live
Merchant Console account, the developer can be confident they will get similar results when the technology moves into
production, which is as easy as switching to a live account when development is complete by implementing a simple URL
update.

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