Third Party: Gettin’ Jiggy With It!

If your business is young and a merchant account is unavailable to you, you
might consider getting a third party merchant account with a third party credit
card processor. Third party credit card processing has the same advantages and
benefits of merchant account credit card processing. A third party payment processor
works as fast, as stable and as effective as any other merchant account processor.

The benefits and advantages of third party credit card payment processor services
are:

• almost all types and brands of credit cards are supported, from any country;
• direct access to a Virtual Terminal;
• XML API interface or hosted order page;
• quick online payment implementation;
• secure server (SSL technology);
• simple and easy-to-use administration web interface;
• shipping fees management and other managements;
• fully customizable shopping cart and order page design;
• immediate integration;
• powerful management tools;
• any country is welcome;
• powerful marketing tools (incl. affiliate programs and schemes).

A third party account works as any other merchant account, nothing mysterious
or special. The only difference between merchant account processing and third
party processing is that third party processing is conducted through third party
merchants, acting as ecommerce merchants. Payments are made out by the third
party merchant service once or twice a month.

It is sometimes better to use third party services, even if it is possible
to get a merchant account. The thing is that third party services have NO membership
fees, and sometimes NO setup fees! Third party transaction payments are only
a little higher than merchant account processing. You can easily calculate how
much you will save using a third party processor service. And you may be really
surprised to find out that you may save a lot more using third party processing
rather than merchant account processing.

Many people consider third party processing as unreliable and unstable. Why?
There is absolutely no reason to believe so. Third party processing is as stable
and as reliable as any of the best merchant accounts around! Third party processing
is easier to get, due to the flexible guidelines, and low monthly minimums.
Third party processing is as indispensable as a merchant account for an online
business.