Ask The Experts. Contact Us For Assistance. To do that, you must acquire an online merchant account and payment gateway.
Merchant accounts enable businesses to accept credit cards.
A payment gateway is essentially the credit card swipe machine of the Internet. Payment gateways securely send credit card charges from the merchant to the credit card company and back again. Through Anacom's online interface, you can generate sales reports, manually input credit card numbers as well as block bad IP addresses, e-mail addresses and credit card numbers. Anacom checks credit card numbers against a database of bad numbers to further decrease the chances of stolen credit card use on your site. Approval and Setup Approval occurs within two to three hours of a standard application.