Essential Points to Remember While Selecting Merchant Services

The other day I saw something that I haven't seen in quite a while, and I'm not talking about black and white television. I found a new online shopping site and their checkout page had directions on how to send in a check for payment.

I had two immediate thoughts. First, this might be an old version of the site because in my experience no one does paper checks online any more. Two, if it was current I didn't trust it. With merchant services so easy to establish why would anyone not accept payments online?

There may have been a time in the online shopping arena when only established larger businesses had credit card processing, but that selling payment processing services time has come and gone. Consider the following examples:

o A buddy of mine buys and sells baseball cards, working from his extra bedroom, and he is set up to accept credit cards