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authorize.net
What Is authorize.net?
🏆Voted the Best Payment Gateway for Fraud Prevention by Forbes!
Authorize.net helps makes it simple to accept electronic and credit card payments in person, online or over the phone. Get solutions that go to work for your business and let you focus on what you love best.
A community of nearly 500,000 merchants strong. That's a lot of passion. As a leading payment gateway, Authorize.net handles more than 1 billion transactions and $149 billion in payments every year.
Who Uses authorize.net?
Backed by Visa's 99.999% uptime, easily connect payments to every part of your business, including shopping carts, accounting, subscriptions, over the phone, in-store and more. Accept payments today.
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Reviews of authorize.net
Simple and Easy To Deploy
Comments: Overall, after the initial phone calls and emailing documents, its been a pleasure using the service. No headaches and it just sits in the background doing what its supposed to be doing.
Pros:
I like the ease of use. and ease of deployment of the service. my main reason for using it is because ITS not all the other providers out there. its a REAL merchant account.
Cons:
The actual process to get approved is LONG and kind of a pain because it is a REAL merchant account, they also do a hard pull on your credit, which was less t Han ideal but a pessary evil to get the service.
Great for and B2B payment processer
Pros:
Super Secure for you and your customers easy to set up and use Low fees Over 25+ year experience in the payment gateway services business
Cons:
Some feature do not work properly due to high security of information even when set up properly.(Stored Credit Cards feature in BigCommerce)
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Payment Gateway But Not Exactly a Payment Processor
Comments: Although I liked the flexibility of a separate CC processor and gateway with Authorize.Net, I ultimately switched to a different provider that could provide full service payment processing and gateway services all together. I may be paying slightly higher processing fees, it is just easier to have it all together in one place.
Pros:
At one time Authorize.Net was only one of a handful of payment gateways for small business. They do that well and have a feature-rich customer portal. They are also widely supported by the various eCommerce platforms.
Cons:
Be aware that Authorize.Net is not a CC card processor but a payment gateway that can be paired with a CC processor. There are a many one-stop alternatives available today. You might be able to get a better discount rate with a CC processor/Authorize.Net combo, but it is certainly more hassle.
Worked great for us!!
Comments: Overall the whole integration process was smooth. The management portal is pretty intuitive.
Pros:
The integration was smooth and easy with all the documentation for direct web integration.
Cons:
The developer documentation around API was not that detailed. Had to reference other sources on internet.
AUTHORIZENET IS A MUST HAVE
Comments: OVERALL IT IS A GREAT WAY OF SETTING UP PAYMENT ARRANGEMENTS WITHOUT CONSTANT REMINDERS. I LOVE THE EASE OF GAINING CLEARED AND DECLINED PAYMENTS.
Pros:
INSTANT PAYMENT INFORMATION. DECLINED AND ACCEPTED WITHOUT HAVING TO TAKE THE TIME TO PROCESS EACH PAYMENT.
Cons:
LOG IN CAN BE DAUNTING. I HAVE TO MAKE SURE MY EMAIL IS UP TO RECEIVE A CODE EVERYTIME I SIGN IN. I UNDERSTAND WHY BUT, IT CAN BE A HASSLE
