When you start your business online and you start to get the first requests from your customers that they want to pay by credit card, you will quickly meet the term Merchant Account, if you look around for instant on Google for payment service providers or credit card processing, many companies will tell you that you have to open a Merchant Account with one of their Acquiring Banks.

So what is a merchant account, please explain, often people connect a merchant account with a regular bank account which isn’t obvious but simply a confusion in the terms. A Merchant account is opened by an Acquiring bank, which is authorized by the card association to process payments by credit card for Online Merchants. In many countries you will need to contact another company (Payment Service Provider, ISO or MSP) which on behalf of the Acquiring bank will open the Merchant Account for you. Often you need to sign a Credit Card acceptance contract both with the Acquiring Bank and the Payment Service Provider, to become a Merchant Account.

When you open a Merchant Account you will also need to know which credit cards you will and need to accept on your web site. The major credit cards are Visa and MasterCard, then comes Amex, Diners, JCB and the rest. Many countries have also country specific credit and debit cards for which you need a separated merchant account or merchant agreement. A Merchant Account can be opened by any business which sells products and services and which to accept credit cards, this is the case for both online and Offline business. However, not all business industries can become a Merchant Account or Merchant Agreement, some business types are simply not accepted by the card association.

An important thing to know when you consider opening a Merchant Account is that you will be held responsible for each and every transaction made on your web site. When you open a Merchant Account with an Acquiring Bank you will sign an agreement where you will find the clausal, that you will be pay the bank any losses they might have on your business, that you as the Merchant and the Merchant Account holder will not sell any other products or services then what you listed in the Merchant Agreement. Also that if your merchant account is facing excessive chargeback’s that it simply will be terminated and that you will be subject for fines. Often we suggest clients looking for a Merchant Account, to make a good business description of what they are going to sell and how they will do it. This helps both the bank and the payment service provider in finding the right solution for you. A Merchant Account isn’t the right solution for anyone, but if you are doing well with your business and you learn how to protect you from fraud, then a Merchant Account can be less expensive and more agile compared to any other solution.

CCLOGIC LLC has more than 10 years of experience in the field of Credit Card Processing; we have been in the marked from almost the beginning and know very well the traps, the good ones and the bad ones. We work as consultancies for businesses looking for a reliable and secure solution for their Merchant Account and credit card processing needs. We both work with regular e-commerce and high risk considered businesses.

Our payment gateway supports more than 150 suppliers of different currencies, so that the client can order products or services in the currency you know. Buyers know that the cards are accepted by the card logos on the payment page. When the account is set up payment logos are displayed automatically buyers can view the maps available. If the online store requires more cards after the launch is complete an online application must be submitted, indicating that additional cards are added.

Our payment gateway providers to accept applications for most types of industries, including games, pharmacy, adult, retail, software, ticket sales of snuff, Voyage d ‘ business, airlines, lodging, financial services, online games, luxury goods, digital content. By opening a merchant account providers with our payment gateway is growing their business online and the site is available internationally.

As an online merchant to check the available options with our suppliers to payment gateway and see that it is an affordable option.

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Setting up a merchant account with our payment gateway enables suppliers of all major credit cards to be accepted into a website, including Visa, MasterCard and Visa Electron for UK customers. This allows the authorization, settlement and management of credit card transactions online. Internet sales can be managed around the world in a single payment gateway and the payments processed in real time.

Our payment gateway providers also have virtual terminal software, a payment terminal that allows you to accept orders by mail or by telephone if paid for any reason, the information can not be recovered from d ‘ a system based on the Internet. Therefore, transactions can be processed online or offline. Access to the payment gateway will ensure that all transactions are handled easily with all major banks and is available to dealers in all European countries.

Used by the gateway of our provider payment gateway is designed to be as friendly as possible, which gives absolute control over the payments and transactions, the ability to print the statement is always available. The system is very powerful and can handle multiple merchant accounts on one server. The system is capable of handling all major banks and several banks can be installed at a time.

Our payment gateway providers use the Address Verification (AVS), which confirms the identity of the credit card. The system works by the confirmation of the billing address of credit card is the same as in the application form will be kept at the bank issuing credit cards. Verification Code Security (MasterCard Secure Code and Verified by Visa) has been introduced to improve the security of internet payments. Basically it is 3 digits printed on the card or signature required by operators and to secure “card not present” transactions over the Internet, by phone, mail or fax. Due to the increase in attempted card fraud, it is now mandatory to provide this code when the cardholder is not present in person.

A fraud scheme, was designed with a high level of anti-fraud tools to detect and prevent fraudulent transactions, which contains more than 180 different characteristics of fraud. The system is designed to maximize the protection of an online business and is based on more than 7 years of experience and research. Using this research, the company has built a database for its results with many different types of fraud. Features include: intellectual property and game cards, general restrictions on the country, block map, restriction map, Time Frame Relay, tools to fight against identity theft and the tools to fight against phishing.

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Our goal is to provide the most professional solution for our clients, we don’t want to be the cheapest and we do not enter into discussions about our fees.
We are that convince about our own performance that we only invoice a client if we are 100% sure not to fail our mission.

How do you differ from all the other companies?
CCLOGIC LLC is first of all compared to any other company in our industry, an independent consultancy firm, we are not married with any specifically bank or service agent to which we send all our clients. CCLOGOC LLC is extending their network of sub contractors each day and we know almost any aspect of the arena we are battling on.
In the opposite to many Payment Service Providers on the Internet which offer company formation, payment solutions or the opening of bank accounts and advertising strategies, then we have one thing in mind and what counts. If we haven’t put money into the solution we offer, why should our clients do? Our existing is because of the many clients who contact our company each day, we rely on them, and we want their reference on our client list.

CCLOGIC LLC is not in any way involved in any payment processing operations, nor are we involved in the day to day management of any Offshore Company or Offshore
Bank Account, no, we have used all our sub contractors for our own purpose (some of them for more than 5 years) and made our own experience with them, and they
are experts in what they are doing, that’s why we choice them as partners for CCLOGIC LLC.

The services CCLOGIC LLC offers are all in synergy with each other and that’s why we can handle all of them under one umbrella, we use them daily by our self with great success.

How we operate:
CCLOGIC LLC strives to deliver a fast, professional and reliable service to our existing and new clients, we won’t involve our self in any of our clients operations, and we don’t want to have access to our clients money. Also we want to have the right without any further details or discussion to discontinue the work with a client if we fell they are fooling us into a business we dislike or are just not honest about their entire business case. Most important to us is, we don’t want to waste our time on clients which don’t want to pay for the minutes and hours we are using on them, because they came to us because they had a issue they need to have solved, we didn’t contacted them.

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Banks corporate secrecy laws typically impose civil and criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information, including information on the beneficial ownership and control of corporate vehicles. These laws diminish the capacity of authorities to obtain and share beneficial ownership and control information when they not provide mechanisms for domestic and international authorities fulfilling their regulatory/supervisory or law enforcement functions to access records.

Above is part of an article we found on a website of OECD. The purpose of the entire article is to inform people about the illicit use of bank accounts for laundering money or to hide money from tax authorities.
The main purpose for an offshore bank account is to have it opened in the name of the offshore company to be able to get all the benefits from your offshore company operation. Beside the tax benefits and asset protections possibility, often such offshore vehicles are used to be established by people which live in countries where they are unable to open an bank account.

Another widely used reason for opening an offshore bank account and an offshore company is if the business conducted is Internet based. The card associations has divided the world in about 6 regions and prohibit people from one region to clear credit card transactions in another region then where the company and the business is conducted. To work around this problem it is common to open an offshore company which fells into the region of where the Acquiring bank is located with whish the transactions should be cleared.

Other aspects are the legal issues of certain product or services, for example the distribution and selling of replicated products of brands is prohibited in most parts of the world if they are not licensed. In some countries it is however, possible to sell those products; typically China is such a country. To be able to sell such products on the Internet you will need to become a credit card acceptance agreement with a bank in the region where it is legal to sell the product. But those banks (as already explained above) require you to be incorporated in the same country as the Acquiring Bank. To work around this you will need to establish an offshore company for instant in China; since it can be overwhelming to open a company there it could be of benefit for you to have the Chinese entity to be owned by a “more close to you” company which in worth case can be liquidated and in that way not harm you or your economy.

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Many websites will redirect the card holder to a “shared” or “secure” payment form which is hosted at the payment gateways end, and which (if the PSP is PCI compliant) is secure. In some cases and on large web shops it is sometimes of benefit for the website owner to integrate their website directly with the payment gateway which keeps the card holder on the website which then again will leave the card holder get a better experience in some cases.

However, since PCI hasn’t reached all websites and web shops on the Internet, then you will still find places which don’t redirect you to a secure payment form and which aren’t PCI compliant. This websites are unsecure and you should avoid them for any price. If they for any reason are unable to obtain a valid PCI certificate then you can be assured that it isn’t safe to enter your credit card information there.

I have seen many cases, where those website owners want to have the card holder to be kept on the Website/web shop without being redirected to any secure payment form, due to a more professional look and various other reasons, as they explain. I even heard that some want to store the card information because they want to use it for marketing and fraud prevention. However at the end of the road they didn’t care about the security, people think that just because the card information is encrypted then it is safe to store it, to those people, you are SO WRONG, it take so much more to get the proper security implemented to avoid any security breach or even avoid hackers to get the information. It is a task which many think they can overcome but they quickly see that it will cost a few bugs to get it done and because of additional expenses they just leave it and pray that nothing happens or even just don’t care about it.

It isn’t that expansive for a website owner to get compliant and have the proper security and patches applied to your server, and you can find some low cost providers like hackersafe which will help you to be and stay complaint. In my opinion a few thousand dollars should be worth it.

Many people will try to tell you other stories and have found the key to a short cut, don’t believe them; you have to follow the PCI compliance regulations which I already provided a link for.

“Many offshore banks have very strict rules on who they accept as their customers and contrary to popular belief they don’t accept just anyone as long as they have money! They have their reputation to maintain as a reliable and trustworthy financial institution and it would not be acceptable to them to allow criminals to use their services. Opening an offshore company can give you privacy or anonymity, the confidentiality laws of these jurisdictions are usually very strong and are a legal method of minimizing the tax amount you have to pay each year. “

This is what we wrote in one of our articles for not long time ago, and it is true, almost any bank in an offshore jurisdiction has that strict rules and regulations that they simply are unable to enter into the Merchant Acquiring business. Offshore banks will not be able to obtain a license to clear Visa or Mastercard credit cards often because they wouldn’t be able to withdraw the money from the card holders due to for instant European banks would decline such requests.

For instant if you get a Merchant Account in the Philippines or in Mauritius which both are great known offshore jurisdictions and which also have a license to do credit card clearing for each country, then you will often face the problem that your customers can’t pay with their credit or debit card. This due to the fact that many banks for instant in Europe or in the US simply decline such request because those countries are knows for scam and frauds.

However the problem can be solved very simple. You can become a Merchant Account with some banks in Europe and in countries which aren’t black listed in other banks around the world, once you have this merchant account you can ask the agent or the bank with which you have the merchant account to transfer your funds to an offshore bank account for instant in Cyprus.

Don’t make the mistake and open a Merchant Account in your local bank and ask them to transfer the money to your offshore bank account which might be in any of the different offshore jurisdictions, because they won’t do that.

By using the above model, you will need to face that your payment processing rates and fees might be much higher then what you can get them to in your local bank, but this should make it up with the TAX benefits you get through your Offshore Company. Don’t be fooled by low budget payment processors and payment service providers which promise you a offshore merchant account with a processing rate for instant of 4% or even lower, that’s simply not possible.

Also all the so called “free” service that tell you they will process your Visa and Mastercard credit cards for 3% flat rate, no monthly and no setup fees, they will process the cards but don’t transfer the money to your offshore bank account, and even if they would like to do that, then their financial institution will decline that request.

As solid Offshore solution for instant in Cyprus isn’t easy to get done. It needs the experience and knowledge from people which have been working in both the Merchant Acquiring and the offshore company formation business sectors, There are only a limited number of Offshore Service Providers which can help you and also assure you to become the real and right solution, many other will fool you into something you have better been without.

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The website need a way for your customers to order your services and products, this is often managed by installing one of the many shopping carts available for instant OSCommerce or Cube Cart. Those are very easy to install and only take minutes to get online, the difficult part is to add your products, pricing and of course the design.

A good thing to remember is that you want to show your customers that you are accepting credit card payments and that you are honest. The credit card regulations demand you to put up the credit card logos on your website that you are able to accept now. Also you will need to enter your contact and company details at somewhere where it is easy for your customers to find it. Finally you will need to implement your Terms and Conditions, your return policy. A good idea is also to have a privacy statement on your website, which you of course need to apply to.

Once you have managed above, you will need to have a payment gateway integrated, this can be something like authorize net or a 3rd party payment processor like 2co. If you decide to go with a regular payment gateway you will need to find a Merchant Account with a bank that supports the payment gateway you choice. Most Payment Gateway providers already have established relationship to the banks that supports their payment gateway. If you choice to integrate a 3rd party processor then you only need to worry about that, you don’t need to look for a merchant account too. Many payment gateways and 3rd party payment processors have a readymade plug-in for the major shopping cart and billing systems, so it is very easy to get them integrated with your website.

As soon as the integration is done, you will need to contact the payment gateway provider or 3rd party payment processor to make some test transaction, this is of great benefit for both parties since you need to make sure that the credit card transactions are passed without problems or errors to the bank to be processed.

Now you are almost done, make sure your are switching from the test environment to the live system. Often it is a demand from the payment service providers that while you are integrating your website with them, you will need to do so on the test platform and once everything is working you will need to switch to the live environment. The test and live environment is identical, so you can be sure that if it works on the test then it also works live.

A thing to consider is PCI compliancy, which you need to take seriously, if you want your customers to enter their credit card information directly on your website, then it is often needed to be compliant, you can read much more about to be PCI Complaint at the link we provided.

If you are looking for a Payment Gateway and a Merchant Account then cclogic.com  is able to help you, also if you are in the Adult Entertainment or Pharmacy business, contact us today.

Take notice of how the company treats you. If they are quick and informative in answering your questions then this will probably be how they go about their business; if they don’t reply quickly or answer the questions then try another service, there are plenty out there.

Before you decide on the merchant account suited to your business, understanding a little about merchant accounts should be high on your priority list as monthly fees can differ immensely. The more you know and understand your merchant account, the better you will control your business. There are many factors to consider when looking at merchant accounts, amongst them the ease with which the account is set up, how simple it is to operate and the reputation and professional attitude of the merchant account provider. Never underestimate the importance of an anti-fraud system as chargeback penalties from fraudulent transactions can be high and will cut into your business profits if not controlled. Check out the internet for information on merchant accounts and anti-fraud systems.

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When researching merchant accounts don’t just go for the cheapest one you can find. Cheap merchant accounts won’t offer the services that more expensive ones have; check out the features attached to each to see if they are worth the money. Also some account providers will offer a low rate to entice you into choosing their account, but then will increase this rate after a few months. Look out for any hidden fees that haven’t been mentioned or advertised up front by the account provider. Some merchant accounts have penalties if you decide to cancel or increase the rates if volume targets aren’t met. Junk fees can be disguised by using a variety of names, such as security fee, conversion fee, excessive transactions fees, discount rate fees or over the limit fee, so verify what these are before you settle on an account

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