BF Internet - Established 1996

Latest Additions to our portfolio

February 14th, 2012, by Paul Zanelli

Hawkshead Relish produce an award winning range of mouth watering relishes handmade with passion in the English Lake District using only the finest ingredients.

 

Lakeland Hampers are proud to supply a superb range of hamper baskets across the UK. Using locally sourced produce from Cumbria and the Lake District, we have taken the very best our area has to offer and made food hampers.

 

Cake Craft Shop are the one-stop shop for all your cake decorating supplies. With a huge selection of cake decorations, cake making equipment and packaging you should be able to find everything you need at great prices.

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Taking Payments Online: The Options

February 10th, 2012, by Chris Ward

In the early years, BF Internet offered clients the option of taking credit card payments via through PGP encrypted emails. This allowed shoppers to submit their credit card details through a secure encrypted form to be processed in-store and offered reduced operating costs, whilst not requiring an internet merchant account.

The card payment industry has changed massively in recent years, with greater focus on online security and fraud prevention through the introduction of CV2 numbers, 3D-secure authentication and additional layers of fraud checking. These advances have meant that other payment processing options (e.g. PayPal, Sage Pay..) have become far superior to PGP, offering improved PCI-compliant fraud protection for the merchant whilst widespread implementation has minimised costs.

This article looks at 3 options available to you, to allow payments to be taken online:

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Tags: credit card, online, payment, pgp, secure
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