Merchant Accounts
Today the Internet offers the most efficient and effective channel of conducting business with customers around the globe and around-the-clock. As more and more individuals and businesses start buying and selling products and services over the Internet, e-commerce sales will show a blistering growth in the coming years. To ensure that your business gets a piece of the pie, we have partnered with Cardservices International to help enhance your business by providing you secure, real-time credit card processing capabilities through LinkPoint, one of the most scalable, reliable and end-to-end business solutions for e-commerce. LinkPoint converts the benefits of selling online into "cash", by providing merchants a powerful Internet based software that offers a secure, cost-efficient and reliable method of processing transactions and collecting payments in real-time. Depending on your needs, you can chose from 3 Secure Virtual Terminal Payment Gateway options to accept and process transactions (for more information, please see detailed explainations below):
- Virtual LinkPoint
- LinkPoint HTML
- LinkPoint API
The LinkPoint Virtual Terminal makes credit card authorization and transaction management fast and easy, and with our special pricing, really affordable.
97% of new accounts are approved
48 hour approval on most applications (Applications with monthly volumes of or less than $30,000 are approved within 48 hours.)
Discount prices for astrodawg.com clients.
| Services |
Fees |
| Secure Gateway Fees |
15.00/Month |
| Virtual Terminal Set-up |
$149.95 (one time) |
| Monthly Statement Fee (Bank) |
$5.00 |
| Monthly Minimum Credit Card Fees (Bank) |
$15.00 |
| Per Transaction Fee |
$0.30 |
| DISCOUNT RATES: |
| MASTERCARD |
2.32% |
| VISA |
2.32% |
Virtual LinkPoint
With Virtual LinkPoint you do not need to have a web site to securely authorize, process and accept credit card transactions, all you need is a computer with an internet connection and a web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Communication/Navigator version 3.0 and higher). Virtual LinkPoint is the Internet equivalent of a Point-of-Sale (POS) terminal or PC based transaction software without the hardware/software and maintenance expense.
To process transaction, all you have to do is:
- Go to a secure order form and enter your customer's order, by simply typing in the info (name, address, credit card info, product purchased etc)
- You get immediate verification (within 3-5 seconds)
- Voila.its all done
Virtual LinkPoint has numerous benefits, namely:
- Internet fraud protection
- Check status of transaction
LinkPoint HTML
The WebLink feature provides merchants the ability to link their web site to the system in order to accept credit card payments from customers in real-time with complete automation. The WebLink offers the simplest and easiest form of integration between the merchant's existing web site and the system, enabling the web site to accept e-commerce.
To get started all you need is to get your web designer/developer to cut and paste a simple HTML code onto your web site, a computer (Windows 95/NT) with an internet connection and a web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Communication/Navigator version 3.0 and higher). Now you can have your clients place their own orders instead of you having to type the information in.
To process transactions:
- Customers chose products from the merchant's web site and click the 'order' button
- The customers then fill in their information on a secure form (name, address, credit card info, product purchased etc).
- You get immediate verification (within 3-5 seconds)
- Voila.its all done
LinkPoint HTML has numerous benefits, namely:
- Three modes of processing
- Internet fraud protection
LinkPoint API
WebLink, the simplest and easiest form of integration between the merchant's existing web site and the system is sufficient for most of the web sites. However, certain web sites need a greater level of flexibility than the WebLink can offer. LinkPoint API the most sophisticated level of service permits a more advanced integration between the merchant's server and the system. Using LinkPoint API, merchants can directly connect their server to the system's gateway server to process transaction directly through the system in real-time.
LinkPoint API, enables software companies, Internet service providers (ISPs), commerce service providers (CSPs) and merchants with an advanced knowledge of the C programming language the ability to add Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and the ability to conduct electronic softgood download (ESD) of digital merchandise to software products or custom storefronts.
The product provides ordering, payments, tax and shipping calculations and the unique ability of the LinkPoint API-enabled web site to offer digital merchandise which, when the payment transaction is complete, allows downloads to the ordering customer's PC all conducted in a highly secure environment.
To process transactions:
- Customers chose products from the merchant's web site and click the 'order' button
- The customers then fill in their information on a secure form (name, address, credit card info, product purchased etc).
- You get immediate verification (within 3-5 seconds)
- Client can immediately download the product/service
- Voila.its all done
LinkPoint API has numerous benefits, namely:
- Supports software vendors/resellers
- Internet fraud protection
- Supports tax calculations
- Electronic software downloads
LinkPoint API supports the following features for both Windows NT and UNIX environments: Electronic softgood downloads, tax and shipping tables, fraud screening for all transactions and real-time merchant reporting. LinkPoint API requires the integrator to be fully proficient in the C programming language and to have a working knowledge of C compilers.E-Commerce
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