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<html lang="{{ _('en') }}"><head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>{{ _("GNU Taler") }} - {{ _("Merchants") }}</title>
    <meta name="description" content="">
      <!--# include file="common/header.{{ _("en") }}.inc" -->
  </head>
  <body class="en" onload="loadLang();">
    <div class="container">
      <!--# include file="common/navigation.{{ _("en") }}.inc" -->
      <!-- Jumbotron -->
      <div class="jumbotron">
        <h1>{{ _("Advantages for merchants") }}</h1>
      </div>
      <div class="row">
        <div class="col-lg-4">
          <h2>{{ _("Fast") }}</h2>

	  <p>{{ _("Processing transactions with Taler is fast, allowing you
	     to confirm the transaction with your customer virtually immediately.
	     Your customers will appreciate that they do not have to type in credit
	     card information and play the &quot;verified by&quot; game.  By making payments
	     significantly more convenient for your customers, you may be able to
	     use Taler for small transactions that would not work with credit card
	     payments due to the mental overhead for customers.") }}</p>
        </div>
        <div class="col-lg-4">
          <h2>{{ _("Secure") }}</h2>

	  <p>{{ _("You never learn sensitive customer information. You need
	     to ensure that your website provides the correct account information
	     for your business, and that you correctly validate the payment
	     confirmations from the Taler exchange.  As a result, you will have
	     cryptographic proof of payment for the specific contracts you entered
	     with your customers, and cryptographically signed confirmations from
	     the Taler exchange about the deposits. Taler does not require you to
	     undergo any particular security audits, processes or procedures, as
	     you never handle sensitive customer information.  Your systems will
	     have cryptographically signed contracts which you can use in court in
	     case of disputes.") }}</p>
        </div>
        <div class="col-lg-4">
          <h2>{{ _("Free Software") }}</h2>

	  <p>{{ _("Taler is free software, and you can use the
	     liberally-licensed reference code as a starting point to integrate
	     Taler into your services. To use Taler, you do not need to pay license
	     fees, and the free software development model will ensure that you can
	     select from many competent developers to help you with your
	     integration.") }}</p>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="row">
        <div class="col-lg-4">
          <h2>{{ _("Low Fees") }}</h2>

	  <p>{{ _("Taler is designed to minimize the work the exchange needs to
	     perform.  Combined with Taler's strong security which prevents fraud,
	     exchanges can operate with very low overhead and thus low transaction
	     fees.  Given Taler's free software exchange reference implementation,
	     competition among exchanges will ensure fair, low transaction fees for
	     merchants.") }}</p>
        </div>
        <div class="col-lg-4">
          <h2>{{ _("Flexible") }}</h2>

	  <p>{{ _("Taler can be used for different currencies (such as Euros
	     or US Dollars) and different payment models limited only by what the
	     exchange supports in its interactions.") }}</p>
        </div>
        <div class="col-lg-4">
          <h2>{{ _("Ethical") }}</h2>

          <p>{{ _("Taler does not support tax evasion or money laundering, and is
             also not a pyramid scheme or speculative investment.  Taler's
             protocols are efficient and do not waste energy. Taler encourages
             competition by providing an open standard and free software
             reference implementations.") }}</p>
        </div>
      </div>
     <div class="col-lg-12">
        <h2 id="overview">{{ _("Taler as seen by merchants") }}</h2>

        <p>{{ _("Merchants supporting the Taler system need to integrate
          some relatively simple logic into their transaction processing
          system.
          Typical steps performed by the merchant system are:
        ") }}</p>

        <p>
          <img src="images/merchant.svg" alt="merchant perspective" style="float: right; margin: 50px 5px 5px 5px;" width="50%">
          <ol>
            <li>{{ _("The new logic detects when a customer's system
              supports Taler and then needs to send a cryptographically signed
              version of the proposed contract in a simple JSON format to
              the customer.
              The message also includes salted, hashed wire details for
              the merchant, as well as restrictions as to which exchange operators
              the merchant is willing to deal with.") }}</li>

            <li>{{ _("The customer sends a signed response which states
               that certain digital coins now belong to the merchant to both
               signal acceptance of the deal as well as to pay the respective
               amount (bottom).") }}</li>

             <li>{{ _("The merchant then forwards the signed messages
               received from the customer to the exchange, together with its
               wire details and the salt (without hashing).  The exchange verifies
               the details and sends a signed confirmation (or an error
               message) to the merchant.  The merchant checks that the
               exchange's signature is valid, sends a confirmation to the
               customer and executes the contract-specific business logic.") }}</li>

             <li>{{ _("The exchange performs wire transfers corresponding to
               the claims deposited by the merchant. Note that the exchange may
               charge fees for the deposit operation, hence merchants may
               impose limits restricting the set of exchange operators they are
               willing to deal with, for example by imposing a bound on
               deposit fees.") }}</li>
          </ol>
        </p>
     </div>
      <div class="col-lg-12">
        <h2 id="documentation">{{ _("Manuals for merchants") }}</h2>
        <p>
          </p><ul>
            <li>The GNU Taler merchant backend operator tutorial
              (<a href="https://docs.taler.net/current/merchant-backend/tutorial.html">html</a>,
               <a href="https://docs.taler.net/current/merchant-backend/tutorial.pdf">pdf</a>)</li>
            <li>The GNU Taler Web shop integration tutorial (PHP)
              (<a href="https://docs.taler.net/current/merchant-shop/php/tutorial.html">html</a>,
               <a href="https://docs.taler.net/current/merchant-shop/php/tutorial.pdf">pdf</a>)</li>
          </ul>
        <p></p>
      </div>
      <!--# include file="common/footer.{{ _("en") }}.inc" -->
    </div> <!-- /container -->
  </body>
</html>