What is Sage Pay Go with Form Integration?

Sage Pay Go with Form integration is a method of passing transaction details from your website to Sage Pay, in order to obtain authorisation on those details.

Form is likely to be the best payment system for you when:

•   You are unable, or do not wish, to maintain your own secure web servers and choose   instead to have them managed by a third party hosting company.

•   Your website is run from a shared system with the same web server delivering many   different web sites. In these circumstances, an individual company has very limited   abilities to install anything more than simple HTML pages and script files, and cannot   normally install items outside their own user area (especially if this involves components that affect the entire server).

To keep their lives simple, many web management companies do not wish to install specific components on their servers because of disruption of standard building procedures, so the specific scripts and the dependent components required by Server and Direct sometimes cannot be installed.

•   You do not wish for any sensitive information to be taken or stored on your site   (removing the need for you to maintain highly secure encrypted databases, or obtain digital certificates). The shopper is redirected to Sage Pay to enter their card details.

The Form integration can be handled using standard scripting languages like ASP, ASP.net, PHP etc.

With Form, all transaction information is held at Sage Pay, including the full shopping basket contents and e-mails can be sent from the Sage Pay servers to you and your shoppers to confirm the success or failure of the transaction.

Whilst this system is easier and quicker to integrate with than Server or Direct, you should only consider it if you are prevented from working with the server product, because server-to-server communication gives you greater control over the redirection of your shopper and a full end-to-end audit trail that cannot be guaranteed using information sent via the shopper's browser.

Due to the simplicity of the Form payment solution, there is little scope to automate any of the transaction functions such as refunding, repeating, releasing, voiding and aborting. All these function will need to be performed manually within My Sage Pay.