The First Data (SM) Global Gateway is one of the most dynamic processing gateways in the industry today, empowering e-commerce merchants to process secure transactions quickly and easily from anywhere that has Internet access.

The gateway translates information on merchant's Web sites into a format that can be read by an electronic processing system to process transactions online. The gateway uses 128-bit secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption so data remains secure. In addition, Global Gateway screens transactions prior to authorization to check for fraud and uses the Address Verification Service (AVS) and card verification value 2 (CVV2) to help confirm user information.