Bermuda-based First Atlantic Commerce (FAC) this week announced the company has achieved platform compatibility with Miva Corporation's Miva Merchant, a leading storefront development and management system.

FAC, an e-commerce payment solutions provider, provides multi-currency transaction processing services through cGate, which it claims is a secure and fully flexible card payment system, in addition to acquirer consulting and risk management services.

Miva Merchant is said to be a dynamic browser based system that allows merchants to create multiple online stores. The browser based administration interface provides access to sophisticated tools to maintain catalogues and inventory, manage customer accounts, create comprehensive promotional campaigns, handle order fulfilment responsibilities and generate detailed sales and website traffic reports.

Integration with Miva Merchant enables First Atlantic Commerce's payment processing platform to operate in conjunction with the shopping cart application, providing merchants with easy access to selling their wares over the internet in the currency of their choice.

FAC chief executive officer Andrea Wilson said: "First Atlantic Commerce's compatibility with Miva further enhances our global e-commerce payment platform and provides the small to medium segment of our customer base with a one stop shop for their e-commerce needs.

"Miva Merchant together with First Atlantic Commerce's payment processing platform provides customers with the ability to launch customised e-commerce stores quickly, easily and efficiently."

Express Market, a division of Trinidad Express, the national newspaper for Trinidad and Tobago, is the first customer to go live on the First Atlantic Commerce and Miva Merchant platform.

"First Atlantic Commerce's integration with the Miva shopping cart product allows Trinidad Express to utilise a transaction processing service provider that is based in our region and understands our region, while having access to a leading storefront provider that caters to small to medium sized businesses," said Tony Johnson, general manager, business development of Trinidad Express.