Let me cut straight to the chase.
You know as well as I do that there is a lot of money to be made with travel sites.
Unfortunately, this has led unscrupulous individuals to set up “fake” sites and rip off other poor netizens.
Because of this, combined with the often high prices charged (relatively speaking) most merchant account providers won’t accept any travel businesses.
None.
Trust me.
You read the small print on a number of merchant account providers’ sites, listing the types of products you can’t sell, and I guarantee you that most will list travel products alongside firearms, hacker software and porn!
Crazy, eh? That you’re lumped in with people like that because of other peoples actions.
There are some specialist travel merchant account providers we’ve heard from over the last few years but many of these we’ve investigated charge a setup fee of $1000 or more.
Then the transaction rates can be as high as 15-20%.
At that rate you’d have to hit the ground running and need to start generating sales straight away just to make a small profit.
And we all have off periods of the year.
And even if we didn’t, I’m sure you’d agree with me that the above rates are pretty unfair.
Luckily, in our discussions with some other merchant account providers we came across one which isn’t specifically a travel merchant account provider but services most industries including yours – travel businesses.
The best option we’ve seen accepts international customers so it really doesn’t matter where you’re based, offers reasonable rates when you compare them with the competition (around 4-5%), very fast setup and payments like clockwork.
They also have some of the most impressive fraud prevention tools I’ve ever seen to help you protect yourself from criminals including address verification and a piece of technology called the Advanced Fraud Screen which is the only such piece of software endorsed by Visa themselves.
If you’d like to learn more about what is on offer you can fill in the no-obligation form below. Having examined your business they will then be able to get back to you to discuss exactly what they can offer at what cost.
You’re then free to make a decision without any pressure.
We recommend Charge.com for travel business merchant account services.
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