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How To Secure A Merchant Account To Accept Visa And Mastercard

I’m a recent graduate. It’s a tough job market right now. I was offered a job for a company who sells merchant services, basically the hardware software and service to accept credit cards for businesses. They say it’s a career sales job but it’s a call center environment and the base is only 25k.I have a feeling this may be one of those companies that burn and turn their employees and kind of prey on new grads. This isn’t exactly what I was looking for but am open to it if there’s decent commissions to make and if its a good business to be in. Have you worked in this industry? What do you think?

Our business is expanding into the UK and would like to use a merchant service that can collect funds in Euros and transfer them to our accounts in dollars. Any idea of a service that can perform this function?

Do I need a Merchant Account? When you start your business online and you start to get the first requests from your customers that they want to pay by credit card, you will quickly meet the term Merchant Account, if you look around for instant on Google for payment service providers or credit card processing, many companies will tell you that you have to open a Merchant Account with one of their Acquiring Banks.

So what is a merchant account, please explain, often people connect a merchant account with a regular bank account which isn’t obvious but simply a confusion in the terms.

A Merchant account is opened by an Acquiring bank, which is authorized by the card association to process payments by credit card for Online Merchants. In many countries you will need to contact another company (Payment Service Provider, ISO or MSP) which on behalf of the Acquiring bank will open the Merchant Account for you. Often you need to sign a Credit Card acceptance contract both with the Acquiring Bank and the Payment Service Provider, to become a Merchant Account.

When you open a Merchant Account you will also need to know which credit cards you will and need to accept on your web site. The major credit cards are Visa and MasterCard, then comes Amex, Diners, JCB and the rest. Many countries have also country specific credit and debit cards for which you need a separated merchant account or merchant agreement. A Merchant Account can be opened by any business which sells products and services and which to accept credit cards, this is the case for both online and Offline business. However, not all business industries can become a Merchant Account or Merchant Agreement, some business types are simply not accepted by the card association.

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I am starting my own online business and need to accept credit cards. I have looked at the services that paypal web payments standard have and like them. However i need to know if i have to have a merchant account or can i just use my own/business’s account ?

Can you recommend any great companies I could use to obtain a merchant account? What is the criteria companies use to issue or deny a merchant account to online stores? Thank you.