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Merchant account providers give businesses the ability to accept Debit card and credit cards in payment for goods and services. This can be face-to-face, on the telephone, or over the internet.

Credit cards have become the preferred method of payment in today's market--making a merchant account essential for any business.

Overview Historically credit card processing services were provided by banks that were members of the Visa or Mastercard networks. Typically banks both issued credit cards and helped merchants process them, but over time the industry consolidated. Now, very few banks issue credit cards and the industry is dominated by a few large issuers - Citibank, Washington Mutual, Capital One, MBNA / Bank of America, and Chase. Even fewer banks process credit cards. Banks found that it was not within their skillset to convince every small merchant to accept credit cards, and they began to outsource the selling of such services to small companies called ISOs (Independent Sales Organizations). They also found that massive scale helped reduce the cost of processing credit cards, so they began to outsource processing to a few giant processors including TSYS and First Data.

Now, while some merchants buy their credit card processing services directly from a bank, more typically they get their credit card processing services from an ISO, which is responsible for selling the service to the merchant, providing technical support, processing the transaction (authorizing it and submitting it to the Visa or Mastercard network), bears the risk of chargeback(s), and sets the price of the services. If the ISO is a small ISO it might outsource some of those services (for example providing technical support) to a larger ISO. Except for the few very largest ISOs, the ISO outsources the actual processing to a larger company that focuses solely on processing.

While each of the firms discussed above provides merchant accounts and could legitimately be called the merchant account provider, in practice the phrase usually refers to whichever organization has responsibility for directly maintaining the relationship with the merchant.

Services Point of sale (POS) equipment rental Point of sale terminals may be portable, fixed, adapted for transactions carried out behind a glass partition, or specially adapted for Business-to-business electronic commerce transactions.

Purchase with cashback Cashback allows customers to request cash from the cash register along with the transaction. This cash is debited from their account via the EFTPOS (Electronic money at Point of Sale) terminal. This service is of considerable convenience to the customer and provides benefits to the business including increased footfall, impulse buying, and increased numbers of customers due to the added convenience of cashback.

eCommerce solutions Businesses that sell goods and services via the internet require secure means of conducting the transactions.

Anti-fraud measures Minimizing the risk of fraud both to the client and to the client's customers.

References See also

PayPal
Credit card fraud
Chargeback insurance
Payment card industry- PCI
Cardholder Information Security Program - CISP

Common Merchant account providers

Global Electronic Technology, Inc
Credit Card Processing Services
Payment Transaction Systems
iTransact
Heartland Payment Systems
PSBill
Shift4
Viaklix (owned by USBank)

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