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What to Look For in a Credit Card Processor

‘When you´re ready to think about accepting credit cards, chances are you´ll turn to your bank to process the transactions. It´s a logical choice, but your bank may not provide the service or be willing to offer it to you if it considers your business too risky.
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Banks are cautious about providing merchant accounts to […]

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

PayPal Micropayments Pricing

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 31, 2005 - PayPal, the global online payment service, today announced new micropayments processing fees for digital goods. The new pricing will provide merchants with a more affordable way to process payments for low-cost digital content such as video games, online greeting cards, news articles, mobile phone content and digital music. […]

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

BD4D - A blog about life and working in the web design and development industry

BD4D has a good post on how to get your business set up with a Merchant account:

‘In the latest (and probably last) instalment of our “Building a Startup” series, I’m going to talk about my experience with banks in the UK. We’re going to specifically focus on getting a Merchant Account - that golden object […]

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

Benefits of Having A 3rd Party Merchant Account  

‘If you have been wrestling with the idea of applying for your own 3rd party merchant account then take a look at the following compelling benefits of using a 3rd party provider to mange all of your credit card processing needs.
1. The most inexpensive way to accept credit cards with hassle free, quick application process […]

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Paynet Systems Announces Affiliate Program

‘Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Paynet Systems Inc. provides Credit Card Processing Services and Merchant Account Services to retail, wholesale, mail order, and E-Commerce businesses. The clients are able to accept every form of payment available including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, checks, and every major ATM card network nationwide.
Merchant Services provided by […]

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

PayPal Alternatives

There’s a good article over at Workz on choosing an alternative to PayPal as a merchant account:

‘Many people think that in order to do business online you need to have an expensive merchant account to have the ability to take payments by credit card from your customers. Nothing could be further from the truth. Merchant […]

Monday, July 25th, 2005

Web Hosting and ISP Communities Benefit from Merchant Account Partnership

‘2005–e-onlinedata, Inc. and Total Online Solutions, Inc. today announced a new partnership which brings unprecedented merchant account pricing and service to the Web Hosting and ISP communities for their own credit card transactions.
”We believe the aggressive pricing that e-onlinedata is offering the Web Hosting and ISP communities for their own credit card processing shows e-onlinedata’s […]

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

Paypal Offers Full Merchant Account - Payments Pro

Entrepreneur’s Journey has a good write up on Paypal’s new Payments Pro full Merchant Account facility and writes:

‘Paypal has launched a new fully featured payment system called Payments Pro that includes the features of a payment gateway and merchant account.
A lot of web business owners currently use Paypal to process payments. Using the standard system […]

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

The silent e-commerce revolution

‘With the constant stream of stories relating to online fraud, is it any wonder that many SMEs do not set up an online sales channel? It has also been suggested in the past that Irish banks have been very risk averse when it comes to supporting online ventures — particularly those that don’t have a […]

Monday, May 30th, 2005

Credit Card Merchant Service Merchant Services Resources

‘Take a second and imagine your shopping on a website, find the product you’ve been looking for, and as you go to the order form to purchase it, you find out that the company doesn’t accept payment online. Instead, you must mail a check. If you were like me, you would probably click off the […]

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

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