A common questions amongst new online merchants is where do you get your payment gateway from? Do you go straight to Authorize.net? Or do you get it from your merchant account provider? You typically will get both in one place but this is not necessarily how it has to be done. Authorize.net can only be [...]
So you have three, or more, websites that you wish to accept credit card payments through. You want one merchant account for all of them to share. It seems easier to manage and surely cheaper. But can you do it? No serious merchant account provider is going to establish one merchant account for multiple websites. [...]
A company called Iovation has created a service that identifies computers that have been used to make purchases with stolen credit cards and then add them to a blacklist. Doing so prevents a user from using the same computer for more then one fraudulent transaction. They can constantly change their username or IP address but [...]
When accepting credit cards through a website, collecting the CVV2 number is essential. (If you don’t know what CVV2 is, read the blog entry “What is CVV2?“). In the ecommerce world it is an important indicator as to the potential for fraud for a transaction. As covered in our previous blog entry, this value may [...]
Believe it or not the process of establishing a true merchant account is usually fairly quick and easy (assuming your sales agent is knowledgeable in what they are doing). An account can be opened in as little as four hours or as long as a few days depending on when the application is submitted and [...]
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