CNWB Payment Interface (CPI) The CPI is the simplest and fastest way to connect to your website to CNWB's payment gateway. The CPI makes extensive use of the merchant website (www.CNWB.com/merchants). With very little exceptions every thing you will want to do to integrate CPI into your website commerce application can be managed from the CNWB website. For those merchants who are looking for a easy way to incorporate e-commerce on their sites, you will be happy to notice that CPI is exactly what you need. CPI is your shopping cart. And it can be used in a traditional shopping cart sense or to purchase and manage subscriptions to your site. It can also be used for direct purchase of products without having to utilize the shopping cart functionality at all. Completely flexible and simple to set up and manage. See Flow Chart CNWB's Payment Notification Interface (CPNI) CNWB's Payment Notification Interface (CPNI) allows you to integrate CNWB payments with your website commerce functionality. This part of CPI will allow you to receive immediate notification and confirmation of payments you receive from customers. The benefit to you is the ability to; - Store transaction information in your own database - Automate your fulfillment operations (e.g. Sending shipping info to your warehouse) - For CRM functionality you can track your customers through the notification's pass through variables capability. - Customize your sites response to customer purchases in real time More Info CNWB API CNWB also makes available to developers and merchants a very extensive API which provides backend access to the same functionality supported in the CNWB payment Interface. The difference between the two is simply with the API you have total control to manage the communication between your site and CNWB. If you have an existing shopping cart or an elaborate commerce system for your website, it is very likely you will want to use our CNWB API. If you choose to use the API you will find very comprehensive documentation on its implementation More info This white paper is for developers. The white paper covers the Payment Notification Interface as well as its notification addition referred to as CPNI. It also gives very detailed information concerning our API as well as recommendations for good implementation strategy and security. Once you are a signed up as a merchant accepting CNWB you will have access to our technical support staff. Our staff has gained a reputation of going the extra mile for all our merchants. You will find many of examples of sample code that can be just dropped into your application in many of the popular application languages. Please feel comfortable to contact them with any of your implementation or maintenance questions.