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Does Your Website Accept Online Credit Card Payment?
From : msjsoftware.com.
To start accepting credit card on your website, there are few issues to be considered first...
1. Security Issue
How secure is your order form? Many individuals remain reluctant to give their credit card details to somebody that they deem unreliable. To eliminate their guards, you need to have your order form placed in a secure server with certification.
When your customer enters his credit card particulars, it is sent in plain, unencrypted text form to the host server. And it is possible to intercept this data by unscrupulous hackers. So, you must use SSL encryption to ensure no unauthorized individual can decode the information. Once your customers know their credit card information is secure, they will be *MUCH* willing to give their credit card details.
2. Real Time vs Delayed
With real time payment processing, you will be able to process your customer's credit card information *WITHIN SECOND*. Surely you don't want a credit card payment processor that takes 24 hours to verify the card is valid. Customers are expecting an *INSTANT* verification so that they can download the info product immediately.
With delayed payment processing, however, the data does not go through the gateway. So you can inspect all orders and correct them. This would be fine if you have only few orders per day. What happen when you have hundred or even thousand orders per day? It is certainly very time-consuming and ineffective. So, my advice is to use a real time credit card processor.
3. Refund Policy
How are you going to handle the refunding if customers are not happy with your products and request a refund from you? Generally, you will get some refund requests form your customers. You cannot please everyone. You will still receive refund request no matter how worthy your products are. Therefore, you'll need to have a refund plan. You must decide how are you going to return the money to your dissatisfied customers. Are you going to do all by yourself or hire a full time employee to handle the refunding or leave it to a company that will handle all the hurdles and hassles of returning money to your dissatisfied customers?
4. Applying a merchant account
You may arrange for a merchant account with a company that offers payment-processing services that are known as merchant service providers. Alternatively, you can contact your local bank to open a merchant account.
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