Online Marketing Glossary: Merchant Account

Posted on Jun 24, 2008 in Affiliate Marketing |

Merchant Account:

  • An account with a payment processor for settlement of credit card transactions.  Any merchant that takes credit card orders must establish a merchant account.

glossary bookMost e-commerce websites have logos of the payment processing companies they use that verify the security of using your credit card.  The top companies that are used by most websites are VeriSign and Authorize.net.

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Glossary Definition From
ABC’s of Online Marketing by Alexandra Wharton, Issue 22, Revenue Magazine

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