August 1999
First Reliable E-commerce in Australia.
Zoo Communications, a Sydney based advertising agency, has joined
the ranks of the ArtistScope team.
ArtistScope will be providing the backend for hosting services
to enable Zoo to provide more secure hosting services such as
those for online credit card transactions.
ArtistScope set up one of the first credit card gateways in
Australia, and the only one that proved reliable, ie: wasn't
always crashing when it counted. Zoo Communications, a licensed distributor for the Camtech gateway, now looks forward to providing secure services
to their fast growing clientele.
The Camtech gateway was developed and
maintained by a South Australian university,
providing online credit card sales to
Australian businesses many years before any
Australian bank dared to try it. When those
banks eventually got over their paranoia,
there was no need for Camtech. However
Camtech services online sales for many years
and should be remembered as the pioneer of
e-commerce in Australia. In fact they were
deemed more reliable and more secure that
PayPal who was just starting up at the time.
ArtistScope has been trading online,
conducting credit card sales, since 1998
when they released their first image
protection software. As with the demand for
protection software, if nothing suitable was
available, then ArtistScope would develop
it. And so it was with e-commerce, using a
CGI script instead of .NET applications that
couldn't survive 24 hours before crashing.
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