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An e-cig merchant is finding it’s a new age for high risk internet merchant services

An e-cig merchant is finding it’s a new age for high risk internet merchant services

It’s a new age for high risk internet merchant services, but apparently an e-cigarette and e-liquid manufacturer in California hasn’t received the memo. Recently, there was a piece in the Boston Herald about how Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey issued a cease and desist letter to an e-cigarette company in California, for breaches of the…

There’s Been a Shift: Domestic Merchant Accounts for High Risk Industries

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…

High risk echeck processing: The most underrated way to accept payments

High risk echeck processing: The most underrated way to accept payments

If it were up to us, every merchant we board for credit card processing would have a high risk echeck processing solution as well. For the good folks here at Instabill, offering high risk merchant account processing often means pressing the outer reaches to find solutions for the highest of high risk merchants. Obviously, every…

High Risk Merchant Solutions are Often a Disappearing-Reappearing Act

High Risk Merchant Solutions are Often a Disappearing-Reappearing Act

Domestic high risk merchant solutions come and go. There are industries and business types for which we once had payment processing that we no longer have. Conversely, we’ve seen acquiring banks shun the highest of high risk industries for little or no reason. Then, perhaps six months to a year later, we’ll be notified that…

Domestic High Risk Merchant Services for Your Niche Industry? We Will Listen

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…