Online shopping continues to gain rapid acceptance and popularity with consumers, businesses, retailers, and merchants.

A turnkey payment gateway, MasterCard Gateway Services (MiGS) is a low-cost, high function payment service that significantly reduces the complexity and costs of acquiring, enabling, supporting, and processing Card Not Present transactions, as well as all your standard card payment transactions.

Originally established as an Internet payment gateway, MiGS now offers support for traditional card-present transactions, thus providing retailers and merchants with a single solution for all their credit card processing needs. MiGS also provides merchants with administrative tools to improve payments visibility and reduce their need for bank support.

MiGS provides secure payment processing services for all major payment card brands across all channels , including call centers, IVR, e-commerce, m-commerce, and electronic bill payment.

Month/Year	# MiGS Members
2001	4
2002	9
2003	14
2004	20
2005	28
2006	36