The Internet is booming these days. Does your business operate online? With Strategic Merchant Solutions, we can help you create an Internet Merchant Account that fits your needs. We specialize in low-cost solutions that can open the door to a world of new clients via the Internet with an Internet Payment Gateway. An Internet merchant account is one of the absolute essentials in accepting payment for online transactions. And Internet merchant account is actually separate from a regular merchant account because it requires a payment gateway.The Internet is booming these days. Does your business operate online? With Strategic Merchant Solutions, we can help you create an Internet Merchant Account that fits your needs. We specialize in low-cost solutions that can open the door to a world of new clients via the Internet with an Internet Payment Gateway. An Internet merchant account is one of the absolute essentials in accepting payment for online transactions. And Internet merchant account is actually separate from a regular merchant account because it requires a payment gateway.

A payment gateway is a safe Internet bridge between the credit card processing networks and your website. The merchant can carry out online debit/credit card transactions or other payment processing methods like electronic checks through an Internet Payment Gateway. It is the code that will transmit a customerÕs order to and from an Internet merchant account provider. The payment gateway provides you the ability to accept customer billing information and the necessary validation steps that must be followed before the credit card is actually billed.

The Virtual Terminal facilitates manual authorization and processing of credit cards, as well as the checking of payment transactions, from any computer. Here, an Internet connection is essential. The virtual terminal is a substitute for a standard authorization terminal, and allows a business owner to process transactions without the need for a check or a credit card to be present. All the business owner requires is the basic information from the check, credit card and the consumer to store the data on a computer with an Internet connection.

Strategic Merchant Solutions can also provide you with shopping cart software that is extremely useful for commercial websites. It helps the online customers with their entire shopping experience in one location and then calculates the total cost of the bought materials. This is extremely useful as it not only includes the packaging cost but taxes as well and then gives the customer a final total.

Processing credit cards over the Internet is one of the fastest growing segments of transactions today. This type of transaction or "card-not-present" transaction requires a special type of merchant account. Most credit card companies use special criteria to assess risk and they have a different fee structure because you never physically see the card. There are many benefits to allowing Strategic Merchant Solutions to set up your card-not-present account, below are just a few.

	Accept and process credit card payments in real time		Accepts all major credit cards
	Process credit card transactions from orders received offline		Seconds to complete a transaction
	All payment gateways include Virtual terminal software		Issue credits & Void transactions
	On-Line Gift cards and Certificates		Shopping Cart Software
	View your list of transactions online		ACH Check Software

You can call our sales group toll free at 888.614.6300 for more information.