Referral or affiliate programs are a dime a dozen. In the industry I’m in almost every merchant account provider has one of these programs. I know this is true because in preparation for creating another website I’ve become referral partners with many of them. That is exactly why I am introducing our Referral Partner program [...]
Back in August of this year I wrote a post about freeauthnet.com offer of Authorize.net for “free;” you can see that post here. I tried to show that a free authorize.net account ended up costing an extra $232.40 more than if you just paid the $15 set up fee for authorize.net through my company, [...]
Have an iPhone and desire to run transactions from just about anywhere you go? Then this iPhone application is for you. I have included the link below, just make sure you do not get your merchant account from these guys because if you read the fine print you’ll see their rates are very high - [...]
That’s right I, Robb Lejuwaan, have chosen to give away authorize.net for nothing! My company has been charging a small fee of $25 up to this point but I just realized with a free authorize.net account I make more money!! That’s right more money for me if I give you authorize.net for free. [...]
I just got off a conference call with authorize.net and a new client of mine. Our mission was to switch their merchant account provider within their authorize.net account. I happy to say the whole process took about five minutes and was almost painless (the hold music was brutal!).
I have previously written on this [...]
A Third Party Processor is an independent processor that is contracted with by a Acquiring Bank or Processor to conduct some part of the transaction processing process.
-Some of these Third Party Processors specialize in running and hosting networks of Point Of Sale (POS) terminals connected to their Host via dial out modem; they produce the [...]
By John Robinson
It seems like everyone’s using the internet these days to run transactions. Even brick-n-mortar businesses are using web-based software with USB magnetic strip readers, making their laptops into swipe terminals.
As fantastic as that is, it can confuse even the most sophisticated internet geek when something goes awry. Who should you call?
I [...]
Cybersource which is the company that owns authorize.net has just come out with a report about web based transaction fraud. This is the eighth year they have come out with this report that includes benchmark data by company size and best practices you can use to prevent or reduce fraud.
Go here and fill out [...]
This week I have had the pleasure of analyzing two merchant account statements from businesses that were running their transactions through the extremely popular business accounting software QuickBooks . Both businesses were with the same merchant account provider and both were paying significantly more in fees than they needed to.
Statement Confusion
What I found [...]
