To Do List:
1. Name my company
2. Name my web site (and register domain name)
3. Open checking account
4. Open merchant account
You’ve made the arrangements for adding e-commerce capability to your web
site. Who wouldn’t? Your goal is to make it easy for your customers to buy
from you.
Now you’re dealing with the merchant application and paperwork. One thing
every [...]

Congratulations! You created an impulse in a customer to buy your product. One small catch… without some way to take their credit card number, your sale is as good as gone. One of the most important ways to grab that sale NOW, is to have your own Visa/AMEX/MasterCard merchant account tied to your shopping [...]

We all know that accepting credit cards is the key to online sales. Unfortunately, most merchants are unaware that acquiring a merchant account can actually save them money. And in many cases, big money!

For this experiment, we will use a fictional character named Bill. Bill owns and operates a great online resources for marketing tools [...]

Accepting credit card payments for goods and services has become a huge business. Accepting Visa and MasterCard as well American Express and Discover can add hundreds if not thousands of dollars to your sales figures each month. The problem then becomes which company do you apply with and how much does it cost?
Because it’s a [...]

Knox
Small Business Q&A with Tim Knox
Q: I’m opening a gift shop and want to be able to accept credit
cards. I talked to the branch manager at my bank, but he didn’t
seem to know much about how it all worked. He did say that I
would need something called “a merchant account” and something
else called “a credit [...]

If you want to sell on the internet, your need to accept credit cards. To accept credit cards, you need a merchant account, or access to one. There’re two ways of getting this: Get your own merchant account, or ‘pimp’ off someone else’s.
The latter is the option [...]

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How to get Free Internet Merchant Accounts
This article will show small businesses how to get free internet
merchant accounts. If your business is to grow and succeed, it
is essential to accept online credit cards.
Benefits of accepting online credit [...]

THE INS AND OUTS OF MERCHANT ACCOUNTS
By Robert Levings, President, EasyPay123
Merchant accounts are necessary in order to accept payments made by credit card from your customers, whether you are operating a retail store or an online business. The following article answers the key questions that you may have regarding merchant accounts. It is part of [...]

Merchant Accounts
Your business is successful, but now your ready to take it to the next level and begin accepting credit card transactions, or you have already taken this step but your feeling that your merchant account provider has high fees and your not sure what to do, or what other providers are out there?
You can [...]