An Introduction To Internet Merchant Accounts

Internet merchant accounts enable you to accept credit cards on your website for ecommerce transactions.

Fortunately, gone are the days of internet merchant accounts being available only to large, well-established businesses.

No, these days there's a solution for everyone - from a brand-new one person startup with no money to invest, no business experience and no business plan right up to huge multinationals making tens or even hundreds of millions a year.

We've been researching internet merchant accounts for the last 5 years and I really can promise you - your chances of being able to accept credit cards online are almost 100%.

Being small, or new, really doesn't matter any more. I don't mean to go on but I really can't stress how easy it is to gain internet merchant accounts these days.

This site was initially started 3 years ago after my own frustrations at trying to set up a website to sell computers. The story of my own problems with gaining an internet merchant account is here.

I searched high and low for reasonably priced yet reliable providers of internet merchant accounts that would accept me. It took a clear 6 months of trial and error, research and experimentation until I finally found such a company.

Since that experience I set up this website to help others with just such a problem.

As the site has grown in popularity, we've been adding to it - finding new internet merchant accounts, reviewing them, using them and interviewing both the support staff from the internet merchant accounts and those who actually use them.

This site therefore has grown into a hub of information on the subject of internet merchant accounts and I feel confident that the companies we recommend here after much research and validation really are the best in the business.

The main problem with the market is that it tends to be dominated by just a small handful of companies - both in terms of search engine results and advertising. Some of the best internet merchant accounts we've found have taken us months of research to find. Some of the internet merchant accounts recommended here you may never have heard of. Don't let this put you off.

We have two main articles that list the internet merchant accounts we recommend as being the best in the business, one for US based businesses, the other for non-US businesses (generally referred to as "International" in the merchant account world).