Currently, if your business wanted to accept all four major credit cards you would go to a company that set up Visa and MasterCard together for you and then also help you set up a Discover Card account and an American Express account. Essentially you would have established three relationships. Although Visa and MasterCard are [...]
A common question from merchants entering the world of online credit card processing is when should an SSL certificate be used on a website. SSL allows websites to encrypt sensitive data when in transit to and from a user’s web browser. This prevents hackers and other nefarious characters from stealing sensitive data being sent during [...]
Just like we did for Merchant Accounts, we’ve contributed to Wikipedia once again. Wikipedia now features an article for Authorize.net. It was surprising that an article did not exist for them prior to this entry but while trying to create this article it became apparent why. We first submitted this article a few days ago [...]
A big question for businesses entering the realm of ecommerce is how should they approach creating their ecommerce system. Should you use an out of the box package like Yahoo Stores or Shopify? Or should set up everything yourself (hosting, merchant account, shopping cart, etc.)? Well, let’s look at the pros and cons to each: [...]
From CNet: American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International announced Thursday the creation of an organization to develop and maintain security standards for credit and debit card payments. It’s the first time the five brands have agreed on a single, common framework. The newly formed Payment Card International (PCI) Security Standards [...]
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