Authorize dot Net

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway can help you accept credit card and electronic check payments quickly and affordably.

More than 305,000 merchants trust Authorize.net for payment processing and online fraud prevention solutions.

What is a Merchant Account?

A merchant account is a business bank account that allows you to collect payments from credit card or consumer bank accounts. Merchant accounts are provided by acquiring banks – financial institutions that verify the availability of funds, authorize transactions, and obtain and deposit funds from the customer's bank into your merchant account.

Why do I Need a Payment Gateway?

The vast majority of e-commerce merchants do not have the technical resources, money or expertise to build a direct connection to the payment processing networks. For this reason, payment gateways like Authorize.Net provide merchants with the complex infrastructure and security necessary to connect their Web sites to the payment processing networks. (See our credit card processing diagram.) In other words, a payment gateway acts just like a traditional credit card swipe machine you find in the physical retail world.

Contact NC Web Pros today and let us set your business up with an Authorize.net payment gateway.