Platina bank from Moscow and Reksoft company from Saint-Petersburg announced commercial launch of the new electronic payment tool. The system, named ASSIST (http://wwwassist.ru), is aimed at performing small to medium payments via Internet. E-shops, served by ASSIST, can accept payments with VISA, EC/MC, JCB, and Diners Club cards, emitted by any Russian and foreign banks. It should be highlighted that credit card owners need neither to register in the system in advance nor to install specialized software at their computers.

The server component of the system, developed by Reksoft specialists and utilizing the DynaSite toolkit, provides secure transmission of the card parameters and on-line authorization of the operation by means of CyberPlat system back-office (http://wwwcyberplat.ru). On top of that, the system provides a number of additional services to its users, both customers and e-shops. Among these services are "customer's basket" hosting, monitoring the status of the order, deferred authorization, requesting bills on operations, etc. The API (applied program interface) for the CyberPlat back-office was developed by Inist company from Moscow.

On top of credit card operations, the ASSIST system also allows to make payments from users' accounts at their Internet providers.

Source: InfoArt News Agency

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