Introduction
The PayGate Agent is a small and lightweight software application that is installed on your own server or client PC. It's main function is to provide secure file transfer of your payment files and reports to and from the PayGate Cloud.
It is an optional component and you can choose to not use it if you don't want to.
PayGate Enterprise is a cloud based service for processing your payments. Many payments, especially bulk payments, originate in a file - usually created by a finance or accounting package. The question is then, how do you get those sensitive payment files to the PayGate Cloud in a manageable, efficient and secure way. One answer is to use the PayGate Agent.
The PayGate Agent does the following:
The PayGate Agent can optionally encrypt your sensitive payment files. Encryption takes place while the files are on your own LAN. This helps to protect your payment files while they are waiting to be sent to the PayGate Cloud, while they are in transit across the public Internet on their way to the cloud and also while they are waiting to be processed within the PayGate Cloud. Once encrypted, only a secure process within the PayGate Cloud is able to decrypt them.
Secure File Uploads
PayGate Agent can transfer files from your secure LAN to the PayGate Cloud in a highly secure way. The SFTP (SSH File Transfer) protocol is used to transfer files. SFTP is a tried and tested file transfer protocol used and trusted by banks and other financial institutions to transfer sensitive files across public networks.
There are a number of times when you will want to download files from the PayGate Cloud.
