If you run a business, increasing your revenue is likely one of your top priorities. Accepting credit card payments is a simple way to grow. If your customers can pay you more easily, they are more likely to buy. However, if you have a flawed credit history or are in a risky industry, it may…
Category: Merchant Accounts
Making In-Game Payments Easier
Increasingly, game developers rely on microtransactions and other in-game payments to maximize their revenue. Especially in the mobile space, free-to-play games are more popular than ever. It is a great business model to maximize growth or to add a secondary source of income. However, setting up a gaming merchant account can be stressful. Fortunately, Instabill…
Making Payment Easy: Why You Need a Good Payment Processor
Travel agencies are built on the idea that your customers want to make travel as easy on themselves as possible, so convenience is the key to providing the service they want. There are a lot of ways you do that, from bundling together booking deals that cover your clients from departure to arrival home to…
Why Is It So Hard To Find Payment Processing for Cannabis Companies?
If you’re starting up in the emerging cannabis industry, you might have noticed that your banking options are limited. While there are places where it is easier to find a cannabis merchant account for credit card processing and other electronic payment types in Canada and a few other select countries with a legalized trade, legal…
There’s Been a Shift: Domestic Merchant Accounts for High Risk Industries
We’ve seen a major change in the merchant services industry over the last year: We’re getting domestic merchant accounts for high risk industries far more often than we used to. There was a period when high risk merchants would contact us, we would set them up with an offshore acquiring banking partner 80-85 percent of…
Domestic High Risk Merchant Services for Your Niche Industry? We Will Listen
It is not overtly evident, but the impact that the Super Bowl has on domestic high risk merchant services is significant. With our hub in Portsmouth, N.H., about 50 miles north of Boston, folks can imagine how thrilled we are of the outcome of Sunday night’s result, especially since, only a few weeks ago, American…
Crypto Currency and Internet Merchant Account Services: Regulations are Inevitable
In offering global internet merchant account services, particularly with high risk industries, we’re known as a payment processor that thinks outside the box. Roughly five years ago, when the idea of bitcoin and other crypto currencies began filtering into the mainstream, it caught our attention and we wanted to find out more. Digital currency use…
Why dispensary merchant accounts are a matter of ‘when,’ not ‘if’
It was difficult not to be optimistic about the possibilities for cannabis payments at MJBizCon 2018 in Las Vegas two weeks ago, particularly for merchant services providers anxious for the opportunity to offer dispensary merchant accounts. Recent events indicate the U.S. is moving (albeit slowly) in the same direction as Canada as far as legalization…
Both Sides of the Kratom Merchant Account Debate: Why it’s High Risk
While kratom is an ingested plant with different effects, kratom merchant account solutions remain classified as high risk. In fact, kratom businesses are among the highest of high risk, and solutions for such are not easy to come by. Not many acquiring banks offer e-commerce merchant account solutions for kratom, but Instabill is partnered with…
Merchant account approvals and declines: What actually happens in the process?
A day doesn’t pass that we don’t get calls from e-commerce merchants who are in a nervous state of flux: they’re awaiting merchant account approvals, some very impatiently and others politely impatiently. We don’t take anything personal — we’ve been a merchant account provider since 2001. Merchants simply want to know when they can expect…