Very often we get questions to support mailbox asking Is Click2Sell.EU a merchant account provider? Or what kind of merchant accounts Click2Sell.EU supports? So, in this post i‘ll explain the situation.

As many of you already know merchant account is an arrangement that a company or individual makes with a bank in order to facilitate online sales and payment via credit card, and sends encrypted transfer of credit card and approval information back and forth between the store, the merchant bank, and the credit card processor. Merchant accounts are typically associated with a specific payment gateway provider.

So, if you want to do business online  and sell or promote products and receive money, you definately need an online merchant account. Some of them are quite easy to obtain – PayPal or Moneybookers, because they are „e-wallets“ with very easy account opening procedure (takes only several minutes to open an account) and provide internet users possibility to send and receive online payments, but they do not give you an option to accept credit card payments. It‘s the simpliest way to start accepting money online. Others are more difficult to get – you have to provide quite big bunch of papers to merchant account provider, get product approovals, pay startup fees, etc.

Click2Sell.EU is an innovative affiliate marketing network portal which combines an online point of sale, transaction processing using integrated payment service providers and an affiliate network in one website. As mentioned above, PayPal and Moneybookers accounts are easy to get, so at this moment Click2Sell system uses them as main payment options for merchants and affiliates. Additionally, some vendors can use their own merchant accounts (opened with other merchant account providers).

Here is complete list of online merchant account providers which are supported by Click2Sell:

• PayPal – „is the faster, safer way to send money, make an online payment, receive money or set up a merchant account“. Accepts merchants worldwide.
• Moneybookers – „is the cheaper way to send and receive money worldwide. Secure and convenient online payments. More than 7 million customers and 35,000 merchants“
• Google Checkout – „is a fast, secure checkout process that helps increase sales by bringing you more customers and allowing them to buy from you quickly and easily with a single login“
• RBS Worldpay – „accept debit and credit card payments, subscriptions, online payments and more, in multiple currencies and languages“. Accepts merchants worldwide.
• Authorize.net – „payment gateway which enables internet merchants to accept online payments via credit card and e-check“
• eWay – „is the PCI compliant payment gateway, providing a range of eCommerce solutions to meet your eCommerce business needs“. Suitable for merchants located in UK, Australia, New Zealand, European Union, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Brunei, Macau, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
• First Data (including LinkPoint and Your Pay) – „is provider of electronic commerce and payment processing services to financial institutions, governments and merchants in more than 50 markets around the world“
• PayPoint – „provides merchant services including online payments, internet merchant accounts and credit cards processing“. Accepts only European Union merchants.
• Moneris – „provides the solutions to process debit and credit card payments online in a secure, real-time environment“
• Sage Pay (former Protx) – „is the UK and Ireland’s independent payment service provider (PSP). Catering for businesses of all sizes, Sage Pay makes accepting payments online, simple, fast, secure and profitable“
• Optimal Payments – „provides the processing technology and services that merchants require to accept credit card, debit card, and electronic check payments for retail, Internet, mail order, and telephone order sales“. Accepts merchants from United States, United Kingdom and Canada.
• Ogone – „allow your customers to pay for their purchases with their preferred method of payment“. Issues online merchant accounts for vendors from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom.

So, if you have online merchant account with any of the merchant account providers listed above, you can set-up them on Click2Sell and expand your business possibilities! If you don’t have yet, you should apply for one and I‘m sure that at least one of the listed Payment Service Providers will give you merchant account. Happy selling!