GMO Payment Gateway,
Providing a variety of payment method services to non-face-to-face businesses as SaaS-type services

July 22, 2008
GMO Payment Gateway, Inc.

GMO Payment Gateway Co., Ltd. (TSE Part: Securities Code: 3769, Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, President & Chief Executive Officer: Issei Ainoura hereinafter referred to as "GMO-PG"), which develops payment processing business such as non-face-to-face credit cards in the GMO Internet Group), has CVS Payment and E-money payment in addition to Credit card payment ・We have decided to start "PG Multi-Payment Service", which provides payment method services for Internet banking payment and other services in bulk, around September 1, and will start accepting pre-orders from August.

"PG Multi-Payment Service" refers to a "multi-payment service on One Payment Gateway by SaaS" that provides payment method in various situations such as credit cards, convenience stores payment method, electronic money, Internet banking, mobile banking, and ATMs payment It is a SaaS (Software as a Service) type service provided by the gateway system and management screen.

By providing a variety of payment method to consumers, businesses can increase the convenience of the services they provide. In addition, you can easily deploy a variety of payment method at once, select only the payment method you need, and process and manage all payment on a single web screen. This not only improves the efficiency of operations, but also allows businesses that are starting new services as well as businesses that are already operating services to use it as a version upgrade of the payment system.

It is equipped with the SaaS-type Credit card payment service "PG Card payment Service" that achieves high safety, high functionality, and easy installation. Specifications can be selected from three grades: "Entry", "Standard", and "Advanced", so it can be introduced to businesses of a wide range of scales, environments, and billing forms.

It is possible to provide consumers with payment method that can be used 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at major convenience stores nationwide.

It is compatible with the e-money "Edy" (Mobile Edy) and "Mobile Suica", and it is possible to provide consumers with a simple payment method on their mobile phones.

* "Edy" is a brand of prepaid electronic money service managed by BitWallet Co., Ltd.
*"Mobile Suica" is a registered trademark of East Japan Railway Company.

It is possible to provide consumers with payment method that can be used anytime and anywhere, such as Internet banking and mobile banking at financial institution nationwide such as city banks and regional banks, as well as ATM payment at financial institution (excluding some banks).

We plan to increase the number of available payment method in the future.

This service is supported by Wellnet Co., Ltd., BitWallet Co., Ltd., and East Japan Railway Company.

In 2006, the BtoC e-commerce (BtoC e-commerce) market reached 4.4 trillion yen (*1), an increase of 27.1% from the previous year, and continues to expand steadily. In online shopping, Credit card payment is still the most frequently used payment method at 51.9% (*2), but in recent years, payment method such as CVS Payment, Internet banking, payment, and E-money payment have become diverse. With the diversification of user payment method, the demand for multi-payment services from merchants is increasing.

*1 Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry "Market research on e-commerce in Heisei 18"
*2 Internet Association of Japan "Internet White Paper 2007"

In August 2008, we will start accepting pre-orders from businesses that wish to use new contract and businesses that have already introduced GMO-PG services, and we will start providing the service by September 1, 2008.