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Oct

03

All About Credit Card Processing

Posted By: blogger on October 3, 2009 at 8:39 am

Credit cards have given businessmen a world of opportunities that their predecessors never took pleasure in. Nowadays, all sorts of businesses, from online to traditional, are benefiting from the expediency of these plastics. Even customers are very happy about what these cards can do for them which balances the whole equation. On the side of the businessman, on the other hand, there is the need to be secure about the processing of these cards in order for them to be truthfully advantageous. True, a lot of their sales, if not most, are paid through cards. But unless one is absolutely sure that there are no anomalies in the way the payments are processed, one can never enjoy the full advantage of merchant accounts. It is always vital for any merchant to carefully consider his options when planning to set up a merchant account service. Of course, the key step would certainly be to find a bank that caters to the type of processing needed for the merchant’s specific type of business. This task may be made easy with banks offering specific service packages that are customized according to the needs of different businesses as well. When choosing a merchant account provider, it is also important for the merchant to keep in mind that many banks do not have an in-house processing department. Instead, they partner with an independent credit card processing company which they commission to handle the processing of their clients’ accounts. All these all the more add to the necessity that merchants in fact take the time to review each bank and look into their rates and services before actually setting up an account. If you’re thinking how base rates are calculated, there are a lot of factors that merchant account providers and credit card processing companies consider. One is the risk associated with the industry you’re in, another is your own credit standing and the probability that your customers or clients commit fraud. Industry risks are assessed based on the chances that the bank will have to shoulder chargeback’s if and when your business won’t be able to sustain a good financial standing. Your chargeback rate, or the figure representing the incidence and manner that you’ve dealt with chargeback’s will also be considered. To ensure the protection of your customer’s online customers, you will be required to secure your website with a program designed for this particular purpose. If you operate a physical store, you will also need to purchase processing equipment for authentication. The credit card terminal will be your major direct investment when you want to start accepting credit cards and you will have options on how to obtain it. You may buy the machine or lease it while considering the discount fee, which is a certain amount you have to pay your bank or provider per transaction, as well as application and activation fees. There is no need to get a service that your type of business doesn’t really need, but getting credit card processing equipment is obviously a necessary investment when you want to offer convenience to your customers by accepting credit cards.

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Oct

03

Credit Card Processing And Merchant Accounts

Posted By: blogger on October 3, 2009 at 8:39 am

Anybody planning to accept credit cards for his business will benefit from good knowledge not just about his merchant account but especially on things that he’ll be dealing with once he actually starts using it. While it’s important to know the ins and outs of this account, it will still be transactions that happen on a daily basis that will be needing the most attention. Once you have secured an account to use for accepting credit cards, that will stay with the bank and you won’t be having to change anything about it. Daily transactions, however, that involve credit card processing fees, reversals and other day-to-day activities are what every businessman must take the time to study. If you’ve just begun taking credit card payments, remember that credit card processing fees will not be returned to you when an item bought by your customer is returned. Many businessmen have been debating about this. They assert that additional fees must instead be charged for such reversal of transaction. However, fact remains that there will be no reversal of processing fees simply because when that happens, the banks will be losing funds which they obviously don ‘t really want to happen. It also has something to do with the reality that the banking system was not designed to process such reversals. Although this possibility may well be explored given all available technologies, there simply hasn’t been any significant effort to take this issue beyond argumentation. However, there’s still a way for you to recover what you lose simply by charging a return fee. To ensure transparency with your customers, you have to inform them that you charge such a fee for returned items. You can do this by printing such notice on your sales receipts or in your website where you can be sure it will be easily visible. This fee must be accurately calculated as a percentage of the original amount of purchase made. What most merchants do is add the qualified discount rate with non-qualified surcharge. A fairly priced return fee is anywhere from four to five percent depending on whether you have a card-present or card-not-present account. However, when charging a return fee, it’s important that the merchant charge such the fee for all types of transactions, whether payment is made through cash, check or credit. This is part of standard merchant service procedures discouraging discrimination against customers who pay with their cards. An Internet merchant account, coupled with the merchant’s knowledge of credit card processing and how to best put it to use, can prove to be an asset to any business.

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