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Are All Offshore Merchant Accounts High Risk? An online merchant account is a must for businesses operating online. To accept payment online, it is mandatory to open a merchant account. When you are out in search of merchant account provider, you will come across that term ’Offshore Merchant Account’. Now you may want to know what actually an offshore merchant account is. It often have negative connotation and are often thought of as an account reserved for high risk merchant who are unable to get approval for merchant account within their own home country.
Offshore Merchant account It is like any other account but is with a bank outside merchant’s home country. This type of account enables a merchant to accept payment online by accepting credit card. It is not restricted to any industry type, but is available for merchants across all the industrial categorization and can get this account opened to reap its benefits. This type of account is more beneficial for merchant’s expanded their business beyond geographical boundaries i.e. multinational merchants.
Multinational merchants mean that the merchant sells a product to domestic as well as international customer and deliver real-time credit card processing in a local currency of customer. For safe and secure credit card processing these merchants should work with local bank of other countries. To achieve these objectives, an offshore account is the best alternative.
How to choose an offshore merchant account? If you are looking for an offshore merchant account provider, you will find hundreds of them but find out the one that suite your business requirement is quite a task. While looking for offshore account provider, consider the following: PAYMENT GATEWAY It is not possible to accept payment over the internet by simply opening a merchant account. You also need a payment gateway to conduct transactions. If a merchant is dealing with overseas customers, your merchant account provider should also facilitate you by offering international payment gateway for real-time online processing.
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