High Risk Merchant Accounts
There are many businesses that are currently classified as being high risk. E commerce businesses regardless of their industry are often looked at this way due to the fact that the customer is not ‘there’ when the transaction is made.
Other businesses are classed as high risk due to the industry, or niche that they operate in, or the fact that they process a large number of transactions, which can leave them susceptible to fraud and other issues.
Whatever the reason that a business, or a person is classified as high risk, it will mean one of 2 things when they try to get a merchant account. Either they will not be approved, or the rates charged for processing will be very high.
Often people will have to go to specialist high risk merchant account providers, or offshore providers to get their accounts approved. This can be a problem due to the processing charges that will get added to an account.
Also there may be an issue with the quality of service that these companies may give. They understand that they are in a position to pretty much do as they please, because the traders that come to them don’t have a lot of choice available to them.
Due to this at the Best Merchant Accounts we have analyzed the Merchant account industry for providers that can offer accounts to ‘High Risk Businesses’.
However, we looked for providers that didn’t offer punishing rates and other processing costs and that could also offer really high quality customer service and a high quality technical infrastructure.
There are not many, in fact there aren’t many low cost high quality providers out there even for businesses that are considered ‘low risk’.
However, one company that seems to able to get virtually all types of accounts approved, including high risk merchant accounts is Charge.Com.
They offer some really great services.
If you need a high risk merchant account, I always recommend to people that their first stop should be charge.com.
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As well as Internet and telephone merchants, there are several other areas which may regularly get classified as high risk merchants, they are organizations that are either offering free trial offers, or with payments that are recurring over specific time frames, such as monthly, or weekly. Other organizations may include those with high price points on individual items and a high volume of sales, sometimes around $35k a month.
Companies with a high refund rate, or even seasonal and sporadic sales may also run into problems. Another common area are those that are selling internationally, or who want to process payments in a foreign currency.
It can also be notoriously difficult for those who are starting up on the Internet to find merchant account facilities. That’s why is so good to be able to find a regular merchant account provider who is happy to approve accounts for these types of ‘high risk merchant accounts’.
Of course for these types of Internet start up, being able to do business on the net without being able to obtain a merchant account, whether it is a high risk merchant account, or otherwise is extremely difficult to do.
Although of course, merchants that are processing credit cards when it is not on a face to face basis will always be charged more for their processing costs, than they would on a face to face basis, such as a retail store, because of the greater risks that are involved in this type of processing. This is the case whether it is considered a high risk merchant account, or not.
