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* Credit card merchant processing

* If you're doing business over the Web, you don't need those gadgets that have a slot to swipe a card, and a numeric keypad to enter the numbers manually (in case the swipe doesn't work). For online card transactions, you need a payment-processing software package. Payment-processing software is usually sold as a service rather than a product, which means you don't install it on your Web server and run it on your own. What you need to do is simply pass credit card data to the software company's server, and they take it from there.

When a charge is made, the transaction must be posted both to your account and to the customer's. If a transmission gets lost or garbled, or if a computer somewhere along the way crashes, the system needs to be able to overcome this, and make sure that everything still balances at the end of the day. You also need secure access to your merchant account, so that you can check balances and enter transactions manually if necessary.

Most online credit card transactions are processed in different currencies, from almost anywhere in the world. Credit card merchant processing services provide the high security, fast processing and a settlement guarantee within a couple of days. Internet processing Software allows merchants to manually enter credit card transactions via a PC browser, through a secure connection to the Internet. This credit card processing payment gateway uses highly secure, high-speed broadband lines to transmit your transactions.

The service enables secure payment processing online, which is certified by all major credit card processors in the USA. Ideal for the merchant who requires a PC-based solution, Virtual LinkPoint enables merchants to process credit card transactions via any Internet-connected computer. Its innovative system processes customer orders received from a Web site, telephone, fax, mail or e-mail, and then generates sales, returns, real-time authorizations and reports through the LinkPoint Secure Payment Gateway. To manually enter credit card transactions, you do not need any additional integration. You log on to a secure Web site and complete the credit card transaction using your LinkPoint Basic virtual terminal.