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eCommerce 101: What is a Merchant Account? Opening a merchant account from a trusted bank is the start of setting up an easy and seamless online payment experience. Find out how you can bring in more customers and grow your business, just by setting up a merchant account. What is a Merchant Account? The first…
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What is Shopify? Guide to How Shopify Works
Online shopping brings so much convenience, which makes it an ideal platform for most business startups and those who have established their roots. For businesses, this is an ideal way to reach various customers and offer products and services with much less effort as physical stores. If you've considered going online, you've probably seen Shopify…
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Selling Credit Card Processing
Starting to Sell Credit Card Processing Buy now, pay later. Ever since its creation, the mighty credit card has given cardholders the power to conveniently get what they need right now, even when money is tight at the moment. Today, the use of credit cards for both brick-and-mortar and online shopping continues to rise, but…
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What is Visa Secure: Verified by Visa
3D Secure: Verified by Visa Important Facts Online fraud has been around since eCommerce started. Payment network Visa has established their very own security program to protect account owners and their transactions — Visa Secure (formerly Verified by Visa), a 3D Secure feature. This program is meant to make online purchases not only safer, but…
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TMF Match List
Everything You Need to Know About the TMF Match List Perhaps one of the lists that all online merchants never want to be a part of is the MATCH (Merchant Alert To Control High Risk) list or popularly known as the Terminated Merchant File (TMF) list. If you happen to be a part of the…
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ACH vs eCheck
Understanding Checks: Comparing ACH vs eCheck If your business requires you to sell in bulk, it would mean that you need to transfer and receive huge amounts of cash. Checks are usually the most common way to transfer large sums from one account to another. And with the existence of Automatic Clearing House (ACH) and…
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What is Address Verification Service (AVS)
What is an Address Verification Service Accepting online transactions bring in bigger opportunities for small and new businesses. It attracts more customers due to its convenience and secured payments. Using an internet merchant account or payment gateway can cost more, but the revenue growth more than makes up for it. With all these fees you…
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What Is A High Risk Merchant Account?
High Risk Merchant Accounts: 5 Things To Know Understanding what makes a merchant account high risk can help merchants be prepared. Many factors figure into the determination of a business's risk. Not all banks and payment processors will accept all merchants either. There are payment processors and acquiring banks that specialize in high risk merchant…
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How eCheck Payment Processing Works
Owning a business is faced with a variety of payment options. One of the oldest forms of payment after currency are checks. Today, many merchants have opted to offer echeck payment services, also known as electronic checks, to their customers. While not as widely accepted as credit or debit cards, echecks have been steadily growing…
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Credit Card Processing Fees
Credit Card Processing Fees: The Complete Guide for Small Businesses Small businesses are getting popular these days, and it comes with technicalities and other requirements to manage it. One of these complexities would be the credit card fees (for merchants) or commonly known as credit card processing fees. Here we will help merchants understand fee…
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How to Start A Credit Card Processing Company
Guide on How to Start A Credit Card Processing Company Whether agents are looking to learn how to sell merchant services or how to start a credit card processing company, payment processing can be a very profitable business. Credit cards have been around for decades and more and more people each year use it as…
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High Risk Merchant Account with Instant Approval
High Risk Merchant Account with Instant Approval [No Credit Check] Credit and debit card payments used to be a luxury back in the day. In the recent years, card payments became a necessity to most businesses with online platforms. To enable this in your commerce, you would need a merchant account to process funds. Merchant…
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Merchant ID Number
Complete Guide to Merchant ID (MID) Number Lookup Payment processing is not just about your usual payment transfers. It also includes other transactions such as refunds, rebills, and chargebacks between you, your acquiring and issuing bank, and your customers. In every transaction that occurs in your account, your merchant ID number is used. It is…
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ACH Payment Guide
ACH Payment Guide You might not know it, but ACH payments have almost certainly served you somewhere, sometime in your everyday life. When your hard-earned salary has been automatically deposited to your bank account on payday, that’s the work of an ACH. Conceptualized in the late 1960s in the United States, ACH, or Automated Clearing…
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What is a Chargeback?
Credit Card and Bank Chargebacks Explained: Why They Happen and How You Can Fight Back A chargeback is defined as the act of reversing a payment and returning funds to a customer. At first glance, a credit card chargeback may seem like traditional refund, but there is one crucial difference. Rather than reaching out to…
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