Our Mission
e-Path Pty Ltd is an Australian registered company and is 100% Australian family owned. We are a global provider of our unique manual credit card payment gateway - a service engineered specifically to help end the cycle of online credit card fraud, cardholder data theft and to lower costs for small businesses on the internet.
"We didn't want to do what everyone else was doing - trying to address and manage symptoms. Our aim was to terminate the very root causes of online fraud and sensitive cardholder data vulnerability."
- Peter Thwaites, Founder and Managing Director, e-Path Pty Ltd.
The e-Path Story
Businessman Peter Thwaites and his brother Christopher (a retired building society bank manager) understood that automated real-time online credit card processing had inadvertently created the perfect environment to attract fraudsters and criminals. They began a journey to engineer a safer alternative.
After two years of development, e-Path was launched in January 2006. It may have been the very first system to bundle individual 2,048-bit asymmetric cryptography which is unique to every single merchant, PCI DSS scanning compliance, no cardholder data or transaction data permanently stored, and a "manual control" model all into a single gateway service.
✔Since 2006 e-Path has undergone four major upgrade rebuilds, the last was in January 2026.
e-Path now serves merchants/business owners across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Europe, the USA, and Canada. By putting the business owner back in control over what orders they accept and don't accept and by removing merchant accounts from being accessible on the open internet, we've helped countless businesses eliminate fraud almost entirely.
Audacious Objectives Accomplished
The industry initially questioned a new payment gateway service that didn't instantly attempt to transact credit card payments onlne. However, for smaller business owners who are already struggling under the weight of ever increasing costs, and wanted control over what they accept and don't accept online without the risks of "blind" automation making that decision for them; e-Path is like a breath of fresh air.
e-Path knows no borders. We provide a safe, secure service worldwide that ensures sensitive cardholder data never exists permanently on the internet, in any database or within any storage device in any shape or form. If it doesn't exist, it cannot possibly be stolen.