E-Commerce Merchant Accounts
In order to accept credit cards on your website business, you need an Internet merchant account, a payment gateway, a shopping cart, and a website.

Internet Merchant Account
An Internet merchant account differs from a regular merchant account in that an internet merchant account is approved to run web initiated transactions over the Internet via a website, while a regular retail or keyed account is not approved for web transactions. Usually it involves a website with real time credit card processing so when your customers purchase products from your website and go thru your checkout process the credit card transaction finalizes the purchase with a real-time approval or decline. At East Commerce Solutions, we provide you with a free setup of an Internet merchant account.

Payment Gateway
A payment gateway is a remotely hosted software application that transmits transaction data (either from your website or from a virtual terminal where you manually enter or key in transactions) to a credit card processing network. Our payment gateway's are the best in the industry and they are all pre-integrated with most shopping carts, have the most features, includes a free virtual terminal for manual entry, and are the easiest to use. At East Commerce Solutions, we provide you with free setup of the payment gateway of your choice depending on the features you want or need to successfully run your internet based business.

Shopping Carts
If you only sell one item, just a few items, or provide a service, chances are you do not need a shopping cart. However, most ecommerce businesses require some sort of shopping cart on their website or a buy button and this is especially true the more items you have. A shopping cart allows website visitors to pick and choose the items they wish to purchase. The shopping cart then collects the customers address, and adds tax and shipping as needed. Finally the shopping cart connects to a payment gateway for processing of the credit card order.

If you already have a shopping cart, we will make sure that it is compatible with one of our feature rich gateway providers. Most shopping carts in the industry are already designed to use some of the most popular gateways in the world and East Commerce Solutions is a registered reseller of almost all of those providers and can set you up with any of them. Below is just a short list of some of those payment gateways that can be integrated into your shopping cart or website and if you don't see the one your looking for just ask because we have access to 99% of the gateways in the world.

Payment Gateway Providers List
Authorize.net
E-Processing Network
My Virtual Merchant
Internet Secure
Apriva Online Terminal
Skipjack
Plug'n Pay
Cybersource
3Delta Systems
Fusebox