Anyone who does business online (and actually takes money from other people) must, at some point, bite the bullet and choose a credit card processing company this can be quite an expensive decision.
There are effectively two different ways of going about this; you can either go for the free accounts or the specific merchant accounts.
But what is there to distinguish the two? After all they both allow you to accept a payment from a credit card holder right?
Well yes, they both allow you to accept payments from people with credit cards but there are some underlying and fundamental differences that you should be aware of.
