Back to Top Accepting Credit Cards W hen dealing with merchant accounts, you need to learn a new language. Then click on your browser BACK button to return here. While you cannot do so personally, you can form a fully owned US corporation, which in turn can accept credit cards. For more information, click here. If you expect people to read about your product on a web site and then send you a check, that just won t happen.
Exceptions are possible but rare.
Most people will continue their browsing and forget about your product when done. Of course, you should still be willing to accept checks from people who do not have a credit card. Several years ago this was a major problem. Banks were unwilling to let you accept credit cards over the Internet. Even plain mail-order companies had hard time obtaining a merchant account, let alone Internet businesses.