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Understanding a Merchant Account Contract’s Length of Term

December 8th, 2023

One thing that isn’t often mentioned up front is the term of the contract you have to sign to accept credit cards. When signing a contract to establish a new merchant account you are usually, but not always, committing to staying with the merchant account provider for a minimum length of time. There are three [...]

Top 5 Reasons to Avoid a Merchant Account Provider

December 1st, 2023

After seeing top lists elsewhere for a variety of other topics, we decided that one would be appropriate for our site. Below are the top five reasons to avoid a merchant account provider: They do not publicly disclose their rates Although there are a variety of potential fees involved with credit card processing, there still [...]

New Article: Integrate the Authorize.net Payment Gateway with PHP

November 21st, 2023

It is our pleasure to announce our first article aimed directly at web developers. Integrate the Authorize.net Payment Gateway with PHP walks developers through the process of identifying the steps of an online credit card process both from a programmatic point of view as well as a technical point of view (from web page to [...]

Coming soon…

November 15th, 2023

Within the next 7 – 14 days a new article will be published on Merchant Account Services. This article will be geared toward ecommerce developers who wish to utilize the Authorize.net payment gateway into their websites (or their clients’ websites) using PHP. We chose PHP since that is by far the most popular language out [...]

The Wikipedia Project

October 30th, 2023

As vast as Wikipedia is it is far from complete. One thing I found lacking was the overall contributions for merchant services related topics. It seems that those of us in the merchant services industry are either to lazy to contribute or just not savvy enough to provide Wikipedia with good content. We’ve identified a [...]