Bring Your Own MID: Keep Your Merchant Account, Add Better Tools
Bring your own MID means using new payment software with the merchant account you already have, so you keep your rates, reserves and history.
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Merchant Accounts
Merchant account guides: MIDs, bring your own MID, high-risk accounts, payment facilitators and managing multiple MIDs.
Multiple Payment Gateways: Set Up a Backup Processor
Most merchants find out they need multiple payment gateways on the worst possible day. Checkout stops working, support tickets pile up, and nobody can tell you when it will come back. You are not troubleshooting a bug — you are…
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High-Risk vs. Standard Merchant Accounts: What’s the Difference?
Every business that accepts card payments does it through a merchant account, but not every merchant account is created on the same terms. If a processor labels your business a high-risk merchant account, almost everything about the relationship changes: the…
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What Is a MID
A MID, short for merchant ID (and often called a merchant account number), is the identifier a payment processor or acquiring bank assigns to your business once you’re approved to accept card payments. If you’ve ever wondered what is a…
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PCI DSS Basics
PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It’s the set of security requirements the major card networks created to protect cardholder data wherever it’s stored, processed, or transmitted — and if your business accepts card payments in…
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