February 14th, 2023
One of the biggest misconceptions out there right now is that Authorize.Net is a payment processor. Often times I will hear or read about someone who is looking for a new payment processor and a common answer is, “try Paypal or Authorize.Net”. While I am sure Authorize.Net is thrilled that they are so commonly considered [...]
Posted in Merchant Accounts, Payment Gateways | 5 Comments »
February 8th, 2023
Today Authorize.Net released their API for their recurring billing feature of their payment gateway. This feature has been eagerly awaited by businesses who wish to automate the process of establishing recurring billing accounts without having to manually set up each account or, even more importantly, did not want to store credit card information of their [...]
Posted in Payment Gateways, Programmers Toolbox | 11 Comments »
January 30th, 2023
While aimless wandering the Internet I stumbled upon a brief article that titled, “Shopping for a Payment Gateway and Merchant Account“. Seemed like another harmless attempt to explain the basics of accepting credit cards over the Internet that reiterated the basics that are pretty available from any website related to the topic. It started off [...]
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January 19th, 2023
CCAvenue, one of the larger third party processors, has lost its ability to process MasterCard credit card payments. At least temporarily. Below is the notification they have sent to their merchants: Dear Merchant, For over 5 years, CCAvenue has been striving hard to get you the best of payments facilities and technologies that are available. [...]
Posted in Third Party Processors | 2 Comments »
January 13th, 2023
As previously mention in our blog new high assurance SSL certificates have made their debut. If you visit Entrust’s home page in Internet Explorer 7 you will see the address bar turn green. As mention in our original blog post these new SSL certificates will be expensive. Entrust sells theirs for $99. Verisign is offering [...]
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