What advantage does “real-time” verification give me when accepting credit cards online?
With real-time credit card processing, instead of obtaining customer’s credit card information online and then processing it offline, transactions are verified immediately. Each transaction takes between 5-25 seconds, depending on Internet traffic. Your customer receives an immediate confirmation. If your customer makes a mistake when entering his/her account information, the system will reject it and he/she has the opportunity to correct the error. This eliminates the need of you having to call customers by telephone to correct processing errors. Since all orders are processed automatically, there is no need for you to manually send out order confirmations. It’s all done for you. Furthermore, you can track all orders online to keep your records straight. Simply put, if you plan on growing your online business, you need to be able to focus more of your time on marketing – not doing tedious work like order processing. This type of real-time processing system also enhances your company’s
