April 6th, 2009
A Quick Guide To Comparing Merchant Card Processing Accounts
Why should you accept credit cards online, and which type of account should you get?
Accepting credit cards online is critical to any website wanting to actively sell anything on the Internet. Back in the early days of the Internet it was understood that accepting plastic was a bad idea, because it was trying to apply an offline solution to the digital world. Lots of businesses trialled virtual currencies eg “beenz”, but the web-based currencies didn’t flourish. Yet, more than ten years on from the commercial birth of the Internet, most websites are still using credit card to make online purchases and therefore accepting credit cards when trying to sell things online is still as important as ever.