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ACCEPTING PAYMENT ONLINE > Payment Gateways | SSL Certificates

A vital part of every merchant payment gateway is the SSL. An SSL certificate is an online protocol developed to securely transmit sensitive information over the internet. Short for Secure Socket Layer it encrypts confidential data transmited via the internet such as credit card details.

An SSL is not required if using any of the Checkout gateways which take your customer offsite to process credit card transactions on their own "https" or secure webpages. URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http: