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Opting for a third party merchant account
Merchant accounts are actually bank accounts that are specifically designed for such accounts to accept credit card transactions. Credit card payments can be made at either a physical store or through an online store.
A merchant who owns an online business that is related to online casinos, adult content or even paid online media are considered to be “high risk” in its nature. High sales volume and turnovers make credit card frauds happen more commonly than usual. Hence, these businesses are considered to be risky. This results in banks not willing to provide such merchants with an account. And in order for these merchants to get an account, they turn to domestic merchant account providers to provide them with a high risk merchant account. Most merchants who deal with customers “offshore” would preferably choose an offshore merchant account provider to provide them with a high risk offshore merchant account.
After the merchant successfully obtains a merchant account, he/she would then require a payment gateway account. Basically, this would be the processing account which verifies credit cards authenticity. And if it is successful, the funds would be then transferred to the merchant’s account.
When customers enter their credit card and personal details on the payment page, the merchant must take the responsibility of keeping the details that they entered private. They must ensure the payment page must be an encrypted web page where all information is not revealed to any third party. This is the most fundamental thing that a merchant needs to accomplish in order to reduce credit card frauds. Once the customer has entered all his/her details into the required fields and hits on the payment button, the program would then compile all information and then sends them to the credit card processor, also known as the payment gateway. The processor then verifies all the information that is submitted and then confirms the company that manages the customer’s credit card. After this, the processor then sends out the billing request.
When the credit card company receives the billing request, it will then check if everything is in order. Once it is confirmed that all is in place, an acknowledgement is then sent back to the payment gateway. Once all information are confirmed to be authentic and is approved, the gateway will then start to transfer the funds to the high risk merchant account.
The high risk merchant account will then retain the funds for a certain amount of time. And after this period, the funds are then transferred to the merchant’s bank account.
The merchants are also able to opt for a third party merchant account. With this account, the merchant account provider would collect the payments for the merchant.
Naturally, the fees for third party merchant account providers are much higher than other accounts. The processing of these payments are exactly the same for high risk merchant accounts and third party merchant accounts. This is unless if payments are made directly at the third party processor website instead of the merchant’s.

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DSS Boxes is author of this article on offshore merchant accounts. Find more information about high risk offshore merchant accounts here.

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