Online Credit Card Processing

By: Thomas Morva
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:11:02
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For individuals and businesses that wish to sell products and services online, one of the most important things that they need to consider is the mode by which customers would pay for the products or services they buy online. Among the different modes of payments, the preferred option for most consumers is through their credit card because in recent years, consumers have become very comfortable with using their credit cards to make online purchases. Given this, it is very important for online companies to make sure that their website are able to process credit card payments. The process of doing so involves businesses setting up an Internet merchant account with a credit card processor, which plays a major role in allowing businesses and individuals to accept credit card payments online.

Internet merchant accounts

Internet merchant accounts are set up by businesses for the sole purpose of receiving credit card payments from the credit card companies of their customers. Usually, the funds or the payments made by credit card companies only stay in these accounts for less than half a day before the funds are transferred to the bank account of the business. Moreover, Internet merchant accounts provide the credit card processor of a business with an automatic way of handling credit card payments that are made online.

However, before setting up an Internet merchant account, business owners first need to understand the different terms involved in using one. One of these includes knowing what a payment gateway is. This is an online credit card processor that provides a path between a customer’s credit card account and the Internet merchant account of the online business. Their primary role is to verify the customer’s account information and the online business’s request to have the funds transferred to their bank account. Another important term is funds capture, which is the process where a transaction deposit is made on a business’s Internet merchant account. On the other hand, the term settlement means that the funds from a customer’s credit card account has been transferred to the business’ Internet merchant account.

For online companies, it is essential that their websites are able to process credit card payments, which makes it very important for them to set up an Internet merchant account. However, before setting up such an account, business owners first need to understand the different terms involved in the process of accepting credit card payments online. This is because doing so allows them to fully appreciate how the whole process works.

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