Free Merchant Accounts,
No Charge or additional fees? Do such free merchant account services exist?

‘So-called’ free merchant account services tend to make merchants believe that they can boost their sales volume without having to spend hundreds of dollars on merchant account fees. As a merchant you start believing that you don’t necessarily need an expensive merchant account when a third party company is willing to provide you with free merchant accounts. Many think that it will spare them the time and expense others face while setting up their online merchant accounts.

What the Free Merchant Account Services boast!

Given below are some of the things that the free merchant account services tend to boast about:

• With free merchant account services you don’t need to pay for expensive processing softwares
• You can get a secure server
• Free merchant account services take no customer service fees, monthly gateway fees or minimum transaction fees
• With free merchant account services there are no setup or monthly fees
• No credit check
• Some of 3rd party credit card processors can run an affiliate program for you
• You can start accepting online payments within minutes.

Free Merchant Accounts – there is a catch!

No one works for free!
 

• These companies make a profit by taking a percentage of your transactions.
• Not only that but the credit card processors tend to charge you slightly higher percentage points on free merchant account transactions in comparison to your own online merchant account.
• Also many credit card processors are apt to temporarily holding around 10% of your profits to use them against future returns.
• Initially you are also expected to pay more bucks per sale.
• And once your business requires high volume sales, such free merchant accounts will not be able to support you and you will be expected to invest in your own real online merchant account.

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