The Microsoft® Wallet consists of two ActiveX™ controls: an Address Selector and a Payment Selector. These controls facilitate an electronic purchase at a merchant Web site. Aside from providing a convenient method of posting shopper information to a merchant site, the Microsoft Wallet provides the most secure environment for storing credit card information.
A client payment component (CPC) object in the Payment Selector implements a payment method such as credit cards or electronic cash debit cards. The Credit Card CPC that ships with the Microsoft Wallet contains several default payment types, such as Visa, MasterCard, and so on. Using the Wallet SDK, you can create your own CPC to support other payment methods. For information about how to build a CPC, see the section "Sample Client Payment Component."
You can also create new payment types (such as a department store card) that plug into the default Credit Card CPC. Shoppers can then add, delete, or edit instances of this new payment type in the same way they manage the default payment types. Because the are many varied types of credit cards, this payment type is referred to as the Other Card.
For information about how to build an Other Card payment type, see the section "Sample Other Card Component."
The following diagram shows how the Payment and Address Selectors function within the Wallet architecture.
