The eWAY for Macquarie with half-million dollar deal

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 21 April 2009 15:01

Business IT - Technology

Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, has sealed a three year, half million dollar deal with Australian electronic payment gateway providers, eWAY.

Under the contract announced today, Macquarie Hosting will host eWAY’s online payment system, mission critical transaction applications and encrypted customer data, with hosting on a mix of dedicated Sun Microsystems and HP servers with high-availability firewalls, dual-redundant server load balancing and secure, high-throughput Internet connectivity.
 
eWAY founder and CEO, Matt Bullock, says Macquarie’s solution will support expansion of the eWAY business both locally and globally as it “capitalises on increased consumer confidence in e-commerce transactions and online spending.”

Bullock says eWAY partners with Australia’s major banks including the Commonwealth Bank (CBA), Westpac, National Australia Bank (NAB) and St George, and also has connections to Barclays in the UK and ANZ in New Zealand, highlighting what he says is, the growth in international business for eWAY.

According to Bullock, eWAY’s customer base has grown significantly in the past 10 years, with customer growth of more than 65 per cent in the last year alone, and he claims that eWAY is the only payment gateway provider in Australia with direct wholesale agreements with American Express and CBA.

“These agreements recognise eWAY’s adherence to the highest levels of data capture and security standards,” Bullock added.

Bullock said eWAY offered a range of methods to link merchant sites to the payment gateway, including integration with more than 100 shopping carts and billing systems, making scalability paramount to enable simple, high speed integration with the customer’s online business possible.
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