As this is my first ever online business venture I'm a little unsure of how some things are done, and I was wondering if someone could help me out.

I want to take payment online. Simple enough, but I don't want something like a merchant account where the transaction takes place on their server, but something within a SSL which runs on my own space.

I hope I made that clear, any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Jonny

Do you mean API that connects to merchant secure gateway for credit card authorization...

--Apollo

I might well do....:)

In fact I'm pretty sure I do.

alright. AuthorizeNet has some real-time API solutions, oh, almost forgot, Echo Inc has too... I am not quite sure about Verisign payment solutions....

so you should look for an Authorizenet reseller or Echoinc... both have pluses and minuses

by the way, Cybercash (they got bought lately, I believe) also had some type of API interface, but I never used it... hopefully someone can post some feedback about it

Have you got any links for the afformentioned companies?

Originally posted by Jonny
Have you got any links for the afformentioned companies?
Sure:

http://www.authorize.net (search for their resellers list and contact them)

http://www.echo-inc.com

http://www.verisign.com

enjoy!
Apollo